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  2. Turkish lira - Wikipedia

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    The Turkish lira, the French livre (until 1794), the Italian lira (until 2002), Lebanese pound and the pound unit of account in sterling (a translation of the Latin libra; the word "pound" as a unit of weight is still abbreviated as "lb.") are the modern descendants of the ancient currency.

  3. British currency in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The first territory in the Middle East to adopt the pound sterling unit of account was Cyprus.At the time of the occupation in 1878, for the purpose of paying the troops the British government instructed that a Turkish lira was to be rated at 9 ⁄ 10 of a pound sterling. [5]

  4. Cypriot pound - Wikipedia

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    The pound, or lira (Greek: λίρα, plural λίρες, and Turkish: lira, Ottoman Turkish: لیره, from the Latin libra via the Italian lira; sign: £, sometimes £C [1] for distinction), was the currency of Cyprus, including the Sovereign Base Areas in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, [2] [3] from 1879 to 2007, when the Republic of Cyprus adopted the euro.

  5. Lira - Wikipedia

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    Cypriot lira/pound 1879–2007; merged into the euro, 2008; French livre 781–1794; became the French franc; Israeli lira/pound 1948–1980; replaced by the old shekel in 1980. Italian lira 1861–2002; merged into the euro, 1999 (notes and coins from 2002) Italian East African lira 1938–1941; supplanted by the East African shilling

  6. Ottoman lira - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1930s and the Turkish alphabet reform, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes, with پاره for para, قروش for kuruş and ليرا for lira (تورك ليراسي for 'Turkish lira'). In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre, whilst the lira was known as the livre in French and the pound in ...

  7. List of currencies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Turkish lira euro (unofficial) sterling (unofficial) ₺ € £ TRY. EUR GBP kuruş. cent penny. Cypriot pound South Ossetia Georgia: Russian ruble ₽ RUB kopeck: Soviet ruble Transnistria Moldova: Transnistrian ruble: руб PRB (unofficial) kopeck Soviet ruble

  8. Egyptian pound - Wikipedia

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    This exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling continued until the early 1960s when Egypt devalued slightly and switched to a peg to the United States dollar, at a rate of E£1 = US$2.3. The Egyptian pound was also used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1899 and 1956, and Cyrenaica when it was under British occupation and later an ...

  9. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4]