Definitions
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- proper noun Former name for Trucial Oman, the precursor of the
United Arab Emirates (UAE), comprising most of those small Arab coastal states (thensheikhdoms ) on thePersian Gulf , under Bitishprotectorate since the 1820 General Maritime Treaty; previously known as Pirate Coast.
Etymologies
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After British forces withdrew in the early 1970s from what were called the Trucial States, the seven local sheikhdoms became the United Arab Emirates.
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Before 1971, the UAE was known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference to a 19th-century truce between the United Kingdom and several Arab Sheikhs.
WN.com - Articles related to Dubai's non-oil trade grows to Dh136 billion 2010
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The seven emirates in the UAE used to be called the Trucial States and were a British Protectorate.
The Big Picture 2009
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The fort also houses photographs taken by Wilfred Thesiger, one of the earliest Western explorers to the area known then as the Trucial States.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: How Urbanisation Is Changing Emirati Identity Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 2011
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The effect of the agreement was to carve up the Arab Ottoman provinces into states which became Syria and Lebanon for the French and Iraq, the Trucial States, Jordan and Palestine for the British.
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Leading academic writing on the U.A.E. and daughter of the German World War II commander of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, Ms. Heard-Bey wrote the definitive history of the country: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates.
Who's Who Zawya Dow Jones reporters 2010
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Leading academic writing on the U.A.E. and daughter of the German World War II commander of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, Ms. Heard-Bey wrote the definitive history of the country: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates.
Who's Who Zawya Dow Jones reporters 2010
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Leading academic writing on the U.A.E. and daughter of the German World War II commander of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, Ms. Heard-Bey wrote the definitive history of the country: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates.
Who's Who Zawya Dow Jones reporters 2010
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United Arab Emiratesconventional long form: United Arab Emirates conventional short form: none local long form: Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah local short form: none former: Trucial Oman, Trucial States abbreviation: UAE
Country name 2008
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Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77.9% male: 76.1% female: 81.7% (2003 est.) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: United Arab Emirates conventional short form: none local long form: Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah local short form: none former: Trucial Oman, Trucial States abbreviation: UAE
United Arab Emirates 2008
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