United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic (UAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية المتحدة, romanized: al-Jumhūriyya al-ʿArabiyya al-Muttaḥida) was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 until 1961. It was initially a political union between Egypt (including the governance of Gaza) and Syria from 1958 until Syria seceded from the union following the 1961 Syrian coup d'état. Egypt continued to be known officially as the United Arab Republic until September 1971 when it was formally dissolved by Anwar Sadat.[2]
This article is about the union of Egypt and Syria. For the confederation between the United Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen, see United Arab States. For the union of Libya, Egypt and Syria, see Federation of Arab Republics. For the union of Tunisia and Libya, see Arab Islamic Republic.
United Arab Republic
- Political union
(1958–1961) - Sovereign state in Egypt
(1961–1971)
Federal Nasserist one-party Arab socialist republic
- Political union of Syria and Egypt
(1958–1961) - Unitary republic in Egypt
(1961–1971)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
National Assembly
22 February 1958[1]
1959
28 September 1961
10 June 1967
11 September 1971
1,195,000 km2 (461,000 sq mi)
- Egyptian pound (Egypt and Gaza)
- Syrian pound (Syria)
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The republic was led by Gamal Abdel Nasser as the Egyptian president. The UAR was a member of the United Arab States, a loose confederation with the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, which was dissolved in 1961.