Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Meet the new Google Home Mini. Now in stock. Advertising Programmes Business Solutions Google About Google Google. com. 2017 Privacy Terms. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Human habitation of Qatar dates back to 10,000 years ago. Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula. Mesopotamian. Qatar Wikipedia. Coordinates 2. 53. N5. 11. 5E 2. N 5. 1. 2. 50E 2. Qatar ,9 listen, or listen 1. Arabic Qatarqtr local vernacular pronunciation tr,1. State of Qatar Arabic Dawlat Qatar, is a sovereigncountry located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. An arm of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island country of Bahrain. Following Ottoman rule, Qatar became a British protectorate in the early 2. Qatar has been ruled by the House of Thani since the early 1. Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani was the founder of the State of Qatar. Qatar is a hereditary monarchy and its head of state is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Whether it should be regarded as a constitutional1. In 2. 00. 3, the constitution was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, with almost 9. In early 2. 01. 7, Qatars total population was 2. Qatari citizens and 2. Qatar is a high income economy, backed by the worlds third largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves. 2. The country has the highestper capita income in the world. Qatar is classified by the UN as a country of very high human development and is widely regarded as the most advanced Arab state for human development. 2. Qatar is a significant power in the Arab world, reportedly supporting several rebel groups during the Arab Spring both financially and through its globally expanding media group, Al Jazeera Media Network. 2. For its size, Qatar wields disproportionate influence in the world, and has been identified as a middle power. 2. Qatar will host the 2. FIFA World Cup, becoming the first Arab country to do so. 2. In June 2. 01. 7, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, among other Gulf states, cut off diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing it of supporting and funding terrorism and manipulating internal affairs of its neighboring states, an escalation of longstanding tensions with Saudi Arabia. Etymology. Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer, documented the earliest account pertaining to the inhabitants of the Peninsula around the mid first century AD, referring to them as the Catharrei, a designation which may have derived from the name of a prominent local settlement. 3. A century later, Ptolemy produced the first known map to depict the peninsula, referring to it as Catara. 3. The map also referenced a town named Cadara to the east of the peninsula. 3. The term Catara inhabitants, Cataraei3. Katara emerged as the most commonly recognised spelling. 3. Eventually, the modern derivative Qatar was adopted as the countrys name. 3. In Standard Arabic, the name is pronounced qtr, while in the local dialect it is itar. 1. History. Antiquity. Human habitation of Qatar dates back to 1. Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula. 3. Mesopotamian artefacts originating from the Ubaid period c. BC have been discovered in abandoned coastal settlements. 3. Al Daasa, a settlement located on the western coast of Qatar, is the most important Ubaid site in the country and is believed to have accommodated a small seasonal encampment. 3. Kassite. Babylonian material dating back to the second millennium BC found in Al Khor Islands attests to trade relations between the inhabitants of Qatar and the Kassites in modern day Bahrain. 3. Among the findings were 3,0. Kassite potsherds. 3. It has been suggested that Qatar is the earliest known site of shellfish dye production, owing to a Kassite purple dye industry which existed on the coast. 3. In 2. 24 AD, the Sasanian Empire gained control over the territories surrounding the Persian Gulf. 4. Qatar played a role in the commercial activity of the Sasanids, contributing at least two commodities precious pearls and purple dye. 4. Under the Sasanid reign, many of the inhabitants in Eastern Arabia were introduced to Christianity following the eastward dispersal of the religion by Mesopotamian Christians. 4. Monasteries were constructed and further settlements were founded during this era. 4. During the latter part of the Christian era, Qatar comprised a region known as Beth Qatraye Syriac for house of the Qataris. 4. The region was not limited to Qatar it also included Bahrain, Tarout Island, Al Khatt, and Al Hasa. 4. In 6. 28, Muhammad sent a Muslim envoy to a ruler in Eastern Arabia named Munzir ibn Sawa Al Tamimi and requested that he and his subjects accept Islam. Munzir obliged his request, and accordingly, most of the Arab tribes in the region converted to Islam. 4. After the adoption of Islam, the Arabswhich led the Muslim conquest of Persia which resulted in the fall of the Sasanian Empire. 4. Early and late Islamic period 6. Qatar was described as a famous horse and camel breeding centre during the Umayyad period. 5. In the 8th century, it started benefiting from its commercially strategic position in the Persian Gulf and went on to become a centre of pearl trading. 5. Substantial development in the pearling industry around the Qatari Peninsula occurred during the Abbasid era. 5. Ships voyaging from Basra to India and China would make stops in Qatars ports during this period. Chinese porcelain, West African coins and artefacts from Thailand have been discovered in Qatar. 4. Archaeological remains from the 9th century suggest that Qatars inhabitants used greater wealth to construct higher quality homes and public buildings. Over 1. 00 stone built houses, two mosques, and an Abbasid fort were constructed in Murwab during this period. 5. However, when the caliphates prosperity declined in Iraq, so too did it in Qatar. 5. Qatar is mentioned in 1. Muslim scholar Yaqut al Hamawis book, Mujam Al Buldan, which alludes to the Qataris fine striped woven cloaks and their skills in improvement and finishing of spears. 5. Much of Eastern Arabia was controlled by the Usfurids in 1. Ormus in 1. 32. 0. 5. Qatars pearls provided the kingdom with one of its main sources of income. 5. In 1. 51. 5, Manuel I of Portugal vassalised the Kingdom of Ormus. Portugal went on to seize a significant portion of Eastern Arabia in 1. In 1. 55. 0, the inhabitants of Al Hasa voluntarily submitted to the rule of the Ottomans, preferring them to the Portuguese. 6. Having retained a negligible military presence in the area, the Ottomans were expelled by the Bani Khalid tribe in 1. Bahraini and Saudi rule 1. A map of East Arabia in 1. In 1. 76. 6, the Utub tribe of Al Khalifa migrated from Kuwait to Zubarah in Qatar. 6. By the time of their arrival, the Bani Khalid exercised weak authority over the peninsula, not withholding that the largest village was ruled by a distant kin of the Bani Khalid. 6. In 1. 78. 3, Qatar based Bani Utbah clans and allied Arab tribes invaded and annexed Bahrain from the Persians. The Al Khalifa imposed their authority over Bahrain and extended their area of jurisdiction to Qatar. 6. A partially restored section of the ruined town of Zubarah. Following the swearing in of Saud ibn Abd al Aziz as crown prince of the Wahhabi in 1. Persian Gulf and Qatar. After defeating the Bani Khalid in 1. Wahhabi were attacked on two fronts. The Ottomans and Egyptians assaulted the western front, while the Al Khalifa in Bahrain and the Omanis launched an attack against the eastern front. 6. Upon being made aware of advancements by the Egyptians on the western frontier in 1. Wahhabi amir reduced his garrisons in Bahrain and Zubarah in order to re position his troops. Said bin Sultan of Muscat capitalised on this opportunity and raided the Wahhabi garrisons on the eastern coast, setting fire to the fort in Zubarah. The Al Khalifa were effectively returned to power thereafter. 6. As punishment for piracy, an East India Company vessel bombarded Doha in 1. In 1. 82. 5, the House of Thani was established with Sheikh Mohammed bin Thani as the first leader. 6. Although Qatar had the legal status of a dependency, there was a popular sentiment of resentment against the Al Khalifa. In 1. 86. 7, the Al Khalifa, along with the ruler of Abu Dhabi, sent a massive naval force to Al Wakrah in an effort to crush the Qatari rebels. This resulted in the maritime QatariBahraini War of 1. Bahraini and Abu Dhabi forces sacked and looted Doha and Al Wakrah. 6. However, the Bahraini hostilities were in violation of the 1.
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