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The Libyan dinar is commonly called jni, (western Libyan Dialect) or jneh [ʒneh] (eastern Libyan dialect), derived from the name of British guinea (cf genēh جنيه for the Egyptian pound), a gold coin worth twenty-one shillings. The name dinar is rarely used outside official circles. The authorized fractional unit, the dirham, is never ...
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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 .
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
Iraqi dinar – Iraq; Jordanian dinar – Jordan, Palestinian territories; Kelantanese dinar – Kelantan; Krajina dinar – Krajina; Kuwaiti dinar – Kuwait; Libyan dinar – Libya; Republika Srpska dinar – Republika Srpska; Serbian dinar – Serbia; South Yemeni dinar – South Yemen; Sudanese dinar – Sudan; Swiss dinar – Iraq ...
The Libyan pound was replaced by the dinar at par in 1971 following the Libyan Revolution of 1969. The Libyan pound was one of the strongest currencies in the world, with £L1=$2.80 USD. This was because of the flourishing economy and the new discovery of oil reserves, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although a parallel market currency exchange existed which ...
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.
15 April - U.S. aircraft bombs airfields and barracks within Libya. [1] After the bombing the country was renamed Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Gaddafi announces plans for a unified African gold dinar currency, to challenge the dominance of the US Dollar and Euro currencies. The African dinar would have been measured directly ...