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  2. History of Qatar - Wikipedia

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    Al Da'asa, a settlement located on the western coast of Qatar, is the most extensive Ubaid site in the country. It was excavated by the 1961 Danish team. [12] The site is theorized to have accommodated a small seasonal encampment, possibly a lodging for a hunting-fishing-gathering group who made recurrent visits. [13]

  3. List of countries that have gained independence from the ...

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    The ruling party administration for St. Kitts moved to make the Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla colony into a looser associated state status with the UK in 1967 much to the dismay of many in Anguilla, with agitation turning into the Anguillan Revolution; Anguilla's population moved in favour of returning to British authority in 1971 with full ...

  4. Qatar - Wikipedia

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    Qatar, [a] officially the State of Qatar, [b] is a country in West Asia.It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

  5. Persian Gulf Residency - Wikipedia

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    British Residency of the Persian Gulf headquarters in Bushehr in 1902.. The Persian Gulf Residency (Arabic: المقيمية السياسية البريطانية في الخليج الفارسي [citation needed]) was a subdivision of the British Empire from 1822 until 1971, whereby the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of political and economic control over several states in the ...

  6. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    British North America. Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) ... Qatar; Bahrain; Somalia; Socotra; Gwadar; Vietnamese

  7. Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    Conferences of British and colonial prime ministers occurred periodically from the first one in ... (1971), Oman (1971), Qatar (1971) and the United Arab Emirates ...

  8. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    British America (New Britain) . Canada. Island of St. John; Rupert's Land (A private estate stretching from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and from the prairies to the Arctic Circle.

  9. Decolonisation of Asia - Wikipedia

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    British Raj (1858–1947) French colonies in South and Southeast Asia: French India (1769–1954) French Indochina (1887–1953), including: French Cambodia (1863–1953) French Laos (1893–1953) French Cochinchine, Annam and Tonkin (1862–1949, now Vietnam) Guangzhouwan (1898–1945) Dutch, British, Portuguese colonies and Russian ...