Sentences with phrase «arabian sheikhdoms»
They had been put off by tribal hostility, discouraging results and — in the 1960s — escalating regional violence as the Marxist - leaning National Liberation Front tried to extend its control over southern Arabian sheikhdoms and sultanates, culminating in the establishment of South Yemen in 1967.
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Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a federation founded in 1971 from seven ancient Arabian Peninsula sheikhdoms.