sport-i-rozrywka: United Arab Emirates

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE), also known simply as the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, situated at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a federal semi-constitutional monarchy made up of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi serving as its national capital. The UAE borders Oman to the east and northeast, and Saudi Arabia to the south and southwest. It shares maritime borders with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran in the Persian Gulf, and with Oman in the Gulf of Oman. In 2024, the UAE had an estimated population of over 11 million. Dubai is the country's largest city. Islam is the state religion. Arabic is the official language while English remains the most spoken language and the la…

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Eastern Arabia, also known as Bahrain Region (Arabic: ٱلْبَحْرَيْن, romanized: Al-Baḥrayn), is a historical region encompassing the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula stretching from Basra to Khasab along the coast of the Persian Gulf. It includes parts of the modern-day states of Bahrain, Iraq (Basra Governorate), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Eastern Province), and the United Arab Emirates. The entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia was known as "Bahrain" for a millennium. Until recently, the whole of Eastern Arabia, from the Shatt al-Arab to the mountains of Oman, was a place where people moved around, settled and married unconcerned by national borders. The people of Eastern Ara…

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The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ, romanized: baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, and on the southwest by Somalia. Its total area is 3,862,000 km2 (1,491,000 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 5,395 meters (17,700 feet). The Gulf of Aden in the west connects the Arabian Sea to the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oman is in the northwest, connecting it to the Persian Gulf. It is dominated in its south a…

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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf, commonly referred to as the Gulf Arab States, comprise Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. These seven Arab states are grouped together on the basis of their coastal boundaries with the Persian Gulf. The Gulf touches the coast of every state in the Arabian Peninsula except for Yemen. Excluding the Republic of Iraq, all Arab states of the Persian Gulf are Islamic monarchies and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which promotes political and economic integration alongside joint defense and security under its Unified Military Command. Most of the Gulf Arab states formerly existed as British protectorat…

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United Arab Emirates - Foreign Trade

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United Arab Emirates - Admiralty & Maritime

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Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar in Comparison. Abstract This chapter compares the findings of the book’s three case studies. It shows that for Saudi Arabia, regional leadership was not optional, whereas taking on a prominent role in regional affairs involved more choice for Emirati and Qatari leaders. The latter perceived significant threats to their security, but their regional foreign policies were more obviously driven by ambitions to elevate their small states’ status within the region and beyond. The chapter further summarizes how the three countries’ assessments about what drove instability in the MENA during the 2010s differed considerably, even as they all saw the region collapse in…

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Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Before the spread of Arabic language in the wake of the Arab conquests, "Arab" largely referred to the Semitic inhabitants—both settled and nomadic—of the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Desert. In modern usage, it includes people from across the Greater Middle East that share Arabic as a native language. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years. In the 9th century BCE, the Assyrians made written references to Arabs as inhabitants of the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. Throughout the Ancient Ne…