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Perpetual Maritime Truce of 1853
Persian Gulf history
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Muḥammad ibn Thānī Āl Thānī
- In Doha
…by the terms of the Perpetual Maritime Truce of 1853, and maritime warring was greatly reduced. In the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire, as suzerain of much of the Arabian Peninsula, sporadically maintained a garrison at Doha. After Qatar became a British protected state in 1916, a British political…
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