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British Residency of the Persian Gulf headquarters in Bushehr in 1902.. The Persian Gulf Residency (Arabic: المقيمية السياسية البريطانية في الخليج الفارسي [citation needed]) was a subdivision of the British Empire from 1822 until 1971, whereby the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of political and economic control over several states in the ...
Area Handbook for the Persian Gulf States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 448 These three royal families – Al Sabah of Kuwait, Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Al Khalifah of Bahrain – consider themselves the most important lineages on the Arabian Peninsula. Riphenburg, Carol J. (1998).
Arabian Peninsula states. This is a list of current monarchs of the Arabian Peninsula.. It includes the reigning houses of those states which are monarchies: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and each of the seven emirates which make up the United Arab Emirates.
Persian Gulf Residency, for the British protectorates – Trucial States (1892–1971), Bahrain (1892–1971), Muscat and Oman, Kuwait (1914–1961) and Qatar (1916–1971) Bolghatty Palace Residency, Kochi, Kerala – In 1909, the King of Kochi leased the palace to the British, who used it as the British Residency of Cochin during the British Raj
Dutch East Indies Residency in the Great East: Bali and Lombok Residency, Timor and Dependencies Residency,Maluku The British Residency at Hyderabad. A Residency was an administrative division of: the former British Empire. Most notable were the following: British Residency of the Persian Gulf
The unification of the United Arab Emirates (Arabic: توحيد دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, romanized: Taūḥīd daūlah al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah) was a political and diplomatic campaign essentially led by the ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in the British protectorates of the Persian Gulf Residency primarily from February ...
The dynasties of the United Arab Emirates consist of the six ruling families of the seven Emirates. [1]The Nahyan (branch of the House of Al Falahi) are the ruling family of Abu Dhabi.
The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf and the other states under the Persian Gulf Residency were theoretically princely states as well as presidencies and provinces of British India until 1947 and used the rupee as their unit of currency. [21]