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The dinar (Arabic: دينار, ISO 4217 code: TND) is the national currency of Tunisia.It is subdivided into 1000 milim or millimes (ملّيم).The abbreviation DT is often used in Tunisia, although writing "dinar" after the amount is also acceptable (TND is less colloquial, and tends to be used more in financial circles); the abbreviation TD is also mentioned in a few places, but is less ...
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The English name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo 'a pound weight'. [6] On the Iberian peninsula, the Kingdom of Aragon adopted the Carolingian monetary system (Catalan: lliura , sou and diners ), but those of Portugal and Castile (and subsequently Spain) retained the currency system inherited from al-Andalus .
The dinar (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɑː r /) is the name of the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, with a more widespread historical use. The English word "dinar" is the transliteration of the Arabic دينار ( dīnār ), which was borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā from the Latin dēnārius .
The name dinar then became the preferred name for the pound sterling unit of account as it spread to other Middle East territories. The Jordanian dinar maintained its 1:1 parity with the pound sterling until 18 November 1967 when Harold Wilson devalued the pound. The Jordanian dinar did not devalue in parallel, hence breaking the sterling parity.
The Jamaican pound was also used in Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands until 1968. Jordanian pound; see Palestine pound, below. Libyan pound (until 1971, replaced by the Libyan dinar) Malawian pound (1964 to 1970, replaced by the Malawian kwacha) Maltese pound (also known as the Maltese lira and replaced by the euro on 1 January 2008)
The Irish pound was created as a separate currency in 1927 with distinct coins and notes, but the terms of the Currency Act 1927 obliged the Irish currency commissioners to redeem Irish pounds on a fixed 1:1 basis, and so day-to-day banking operations continued exactly as they had been before the creation of the Irish pound. [27]
The Islamic State dinar (Arabic: دينار الدولة الإسلامية), or simply the gold dinar, [2] was the official currency of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2019. Subdivided into dirhams and fulûs , it was modelled after the historical gold dinar that was first introduced in the Muslim world during the time of the Umayyad Caliphate .