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Definition of Trucial
1. bound by a truce [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trucial
Literary usage of Trucial
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)
"This justified enhancing and elaborating the set of treaties, in which the rulers
of the then six trucial States - like other Arab rulers in the area - had ..."
2. 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 ..."
3. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"Between 1922 and 1935, for example, an English naturalist collected extensively
in the Arabian Gulf, including the waters of the trucial Coast, ..."
4. The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy by James H. Noyes (1982)
"Donald Hawley, The trucial States (London: Allen & Unwin, 1970), p. 53. 9. ...
Hawley, The trucial States, p. 46. 14. Countryman, Iran, p. 13. 15. ..."
5. A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said by Sergey Plekhanov (2004)
"From then on, the 'Pirate Coast' was known as the trucial Coast or trucial
Oman (the latter name lasting until 1971, when the seven emirates forming the ..."
6. The New World: Problems in Political Geography by Isaiah Bowman (1921)
"As a result there was formed among the six principal Arab tribes of the region
a so-called trucial League. The chiefs of these tribes, known as trucial ..."
7. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States by F. Gregory Gause (1994)
"... From trucial States to United Arab Emirates, chapters 5-6. 20. Helms, Cohesion
of Saudi Arabia, chapters 6-7; Al Rasheed, Politics in an Arabian Oasis, ..."
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