Trucial

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• Under the Mandate system, Britain placed its clients in Iraq and the Trucial States of the Persian Gulf in political authority subservient to British interests.

  Academic text (1996)

• Rosemary Said Zahlan, The Origins of the United Arab Emirates: A Political and Social History of the Trucial States (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978), 195.78

  Academic text (2013)

• Known as the Trucial States and administered by the United Kingdom until 1971, the area had been prosperous in the past.

  Academic text (2009)

• They nibbled at the fringes of Arabia, in Aden and the trucial sheikhdoms of the Gulf, but were wise enough to have no military and minimal political involvement in the affairs of the peninsula.

  Academic text (1998)

• Great Britain was an established colonial presence in the Gulf in 1820, having signed a series of agreements with the sheikhs of the individual tribes that, augmented by treaties on preserving a maritime truce, earned the area the name of "Trucial States" or "Trucial Coast."

  Academic text (1997)

• A visit to the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, formerly known as "Trucial Oman" or the "Pirate Coast," during the winter of 1996-1997 permits an updating of my earlier work (Melamid 1953, 1973, 1989).

  Academic text (1997)

• The discovery of oil in the Trucial States transformed the region's economy during the 20th century.

• Many historical treaties between sheikhs led to the establishment of a maritime truce in the Trucial region.

• The British protectorate over the Trucial States facilitated significant political changes before 1971.

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