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English-language publications used "£T" as the sign for the currency, [4] [5] but it is unknown whether it was ever used natively. Between 1844 and 1881, the lira was on a bimetallic standard , with LT 1 = 6.61519 grams pure gold (roughly 9 ⁄ 10 of a British Sovereign ) = 99.8292 grams pure silver.
Libyan half pound, with the portrait of King Idris of Libya. The Libyan pound (Arabic جنيه, junieh; sign: £L) was the currency of Libya between 1951 and 1971. It was divided into 100 piastres (قرش, qirsh) and 1000 milliemes (مليم).
The Ottoman kuruş was introduced in 1688. It was initially a large silver piece (similar to the European thalers issued by the Ottomans), approximately equal to the French écu, or, from other sources, to the Spanish dollar. It was worth 40 para. In 1844, following sustained debasement, the gold lira was introduced, worth 100 kuruş.
The Venetian lira was one of the currencies in use in Italy and due to the economic power of the Venetian Republic a popular currency in the Eastern Mediterranean trade. During the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire and the Eyalet of Egypt adopted the lira as their national currency, equivalent to 100 piasters or kuruş. When the Ottoman Empire ...
Successive currency reforms by debasing the Ottoman currency had reduced the value of the Ottoman piastre by the late 19th century so as to be worth about two pence (2d) sterling. Hence the name piastre referred to two distinct kinds of coins in two distinct parts of the world, both of which had descended from the Spanish pieces of eight.
Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. [1] From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [2] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [3] However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law. [3] [4]
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This is a list of Arabic-language and other newspapers published in the Arab world. The Arab newspaper industry started in the early 19th century with the Iraqi newspaper Journal Iraq published by Ottoman Wali, Dawud Pasha, in Baghdad in 1816. International Arab papers Al-Arab (United Kingdom) Al-Hayat (United Kingdom) Al-Quds al-Arabi (United Kingdom) Asharq Alawsat (United Kingdom) Hoona ...