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Definition of Sheikhdoms
1. sheikhdom [n] - See also: sheikhdom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheikhdoms
Literary usage of Sheikhdoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"One manifestation of this was the creation of the Trucial States Council in 1952
which brought together the rulers of the seven sheikhdoms for periodic ..."
2. The Middle East and North Africa: The Challenge to Western Security by Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann (1981)
"Most important, the region has become an object of Soviet ambition, which the
gulf sheikhdoms, some of them strange medieval survivals, are in no position ..."
3. The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy by James H. Noyes (1982)
"Conscious of the vulnerability of the sheikhdoms to political subversion, from
Iraq and the PDRY particularly, the British made careful efforts to assure at ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"TRUCIAL STATES Seven independent sheikhdoms, known collectively as the Trucial
States, have treaty relation with the British Government originating In ..."
5. Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton: The Friend of Lord Nelson and the Court of by Walter Sydney Sichel (1910)
"His plan was to obtain Eastern Empire, to reduce Syria, and, after recasting
sheikhdoms in the dominion of the Pharaohs, possibly after subduing India, ..."
6. U.S.-Libya Relations: A New Era?: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by Ed Royce (2001)
"Even the moderate regime of Jordan and the Gulf sheikhdoms have similarly embarked
on a rapprochement with Libya. Thus, the notion that Qadhafi is seeking a ..."
7. Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents: Together by Walter Sydney Sichel (1907)
"His plan was to obtain Eastern Empire, to reduce Syria, and, after recasting
sheikhdoms in the dominion of the Pharaohs, possibly after subduing India, ..."
8. Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents: Together by Walter Sydney Sichel (1907)
"His plan was to obtain Eastern Empire, to reduce Syria, and, after recasting
sheikhdoms in the dominion of the Pharaohs, possibly after subduing India, ..."
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