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Since the Middle East was a late addition to the British Empire, the British government had by then already learned from their experiences in places such as Canada, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong Kong that it is highly impractical to impose a new currency in the place of already existing ones. So, even though the pound unit of account eventually ...
Present currency ISO 4217 code Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency symbol Saudi riyal [1] SAR Saudi Arabia [2] Algerian dinar: DZD Algeria: دج (Arabic) or DA (Latin) Bahraini dinar [3] BHD Bahrain.د.ب [4] Iraqi dinar [5] IQD Iraq: ع.د [6] Jordanian dinar [7] JOD Jordan: ينار [8] Kuwaiti dinar [9] KWD Kuwait: ك [9 ...
British foreign policy in the Middle East has involved multiple considerations, particularly over the last two and a half centuries. These included maintaining access to British India, blocking Russian or French threats to that access, protecting the Suez Canal, supporting the declining Ottoman Empire against Russian threats, guaranteeing an oil supply after 1900 from Middle East fields ...
The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) was a joint British, French and Arab military administration over the Levantine provinces – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries – between 1918 and 1920, set up on 23 October 1918 [2] following the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and Arab Revolt of World War I. [3]
To the middle of the 20th century, the Indian rupee was also used as the official currency in the emirates on the eastern Arabian Peninsula, namely Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, and Oman. That meant, in effect, that the Indian rupee was the common currency in those territories as well as in India.
Currencies of the British West Indies; International status and usage of the euro; Commonwealth banknote-issuing institutions; List of countries by leading trade partners; List of stock exchanges in the United Kingdom, the British Crown Dependencies and United Kingdom Overseas Territories
International dollar – hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar; Jamaican dollar – Jamaica; Kiautschou dollar – Qingdao; Kiribati dollar – Kiribati; Liberian dollar – Liberia; Malaya and British Borneo dollar – Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei; Malayan dollar – Brunei, Malaysia and ...
4 The 1928 silver riyal introduced into the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd