Eastern Arabia
Bahrain Al-Baḥrayn (ٱلْبَحْرَيْن) | |
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.png) Eastern Arabia (historical region of Bahrain) on a 1745 Bellin map | |
| Countries |  Bahrain Iraq Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates |
Eastern Arabia (Arabic: ٱلْبَحْرَيْن, romanized: Al-Baḥrayn), is a region stretched from Basra to Khasab[1] along the Persian Gulf coast and included parts of modern-day Bahrain, Iraq, 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.[1]
Until very 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.[1] The people of Eastern Arabia shared a culture based on the sea, as seafaring peoples.[1]
Nowadays, Eastern Arabia is a part of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.[2][3][page needed][4][page needed] The modern-day states of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are the most commonly listed Gulf Arab states.[2][5]
Most of Saudi Arabia is not geographically a part of Eastern Arabia.
- ^ a b c d Holes, Clive (2001). Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary. BRILL. pp. XIX. ISBN 9004107630.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa (1965). History of eastern Arabia, 1750-1800: the rise and development of Bahrain and Kuwait. Khayats. ISBN 9780866854733.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Saleh, Hassan Mohammad Abdulla (1991). "Labor, Nationalism and Imperialism in Eastern Arabia: Britain, the Shaikhs and the Gulf Oil Workers in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, 1932-1956". Hassan Mohammed Abdulla Saleh.
- ^ Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa (1986). Eastern Arabia Historic Photographs: Kuwait, 1900-1936. Hurtwood Press. ISBN 9780903696005.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Eastern Arabian States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman" (PDF). David E. Long, Bernard Reich. 1980.