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Timeline of Kuwait City

Coordinates: 29°22′11″N 47°58′42″E / 29.369722°N 47.978333°E / 29.369722; 47.978333
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The following is a timeline of the history of Kuwait City, Al Asimah Governorate, Kuwait, and its metro surroundings.

18th century

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  • Early 1700s — Small fishing village of Grane or Kureyn under the control of the Bani Khalid Emirate, independent of Ottoman control since 1670
  • 1750s — Bani Utbah migrants establish the Sheikhdom of Kuwait under the auspices of the Bani Khalid
  • 1775–1779 — Siege of Basra by Persia prompts Iraqi merchants and shipwrights to relocate to Kuwait City, along with trade routes from India, Muscat, and Persia to Baghdad, Aleppo, Smyrna, and Constantinople
  • 1792 — E. India Company establishes Kuwaiti factory, tying the city's trade to East Africa

19th century

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20th century

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21st century

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Kuwait City, from the International Space Station in 2006
Map of Kuwait City, 2011

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Turner 2008.
  2. ^ a b Britannica 1910.
  3. ^ a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Kuwait, Kuweit, or Al-Kuwayt", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 996, OL 6112221M, Formerly called Qurein, Grane, or Grain
  4. ^ "Arabia: Sultanate of Koweit". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  5. ^ Michael Herb (2014). The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-5468-4.
  6. ^ "Kuwait marks 50th anniversary of first municipal elections". Kuwait News Agency. June 2014.
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  8. ^ Malcolm C. Peck (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6416-0.
  9. ^ a b c d e Jones 2014.
  10. ^ "Kuwait City". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  11. ^ a b Noura Alsager, ed. (2014). Acquiring Modernity. State of Kuwait, National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. ISBN 978-99906-0-423-8. Biennale di Venezia
  12. ^ a b c Alan Rush (1987). Al-Sabah: History & Genealogy of Kuwait's Ruling Family, 1752-1987. London: Ithaca Press. ISBN 978-0-86372-081-9.
  13. ^ a b c d e "Kuwait". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 2538+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  14. ^ Abdul-llah Abu-Ayyash (1986). "Urban Public Transport Planning in Kuwait". GeoJournal. 12 (3): 243–254. JSTOR 41143870.
  15. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  16. ^ Karim Jamal (12 December 1973), "Kuwait: a Salutary Tale", Architects Journal
  17. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. ^ a b c d e (Kuwait City), ArchNet, retrieved 30 April 2015
  19. ^ a b "Art Galleries and Museums (list)". ArtKuwait.org. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  20. ^ "GCC Most Prominent Decisions (timeline)" (PDF). Qatar News Agency. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  21. ^ BBC News (24 August 2011). "Kuwait Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  22. ^ "(Kuwait City)". Emporis.com. Hamburg. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  23. ^ "Kuwaiti Women Join the Voting After a Long Battle for Suffrage", New York Times, 30 June 2006
  24. ^ "Statistical Reports: Population: Population Density by Governorate". Government of Kuwait, Public Authority for Civil Information. 2014.

Bibliography

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