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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
59. Bahrain
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Bahrain is the largest of a group of small flat-lying islands off Saudi Arabia, to which it is now linked by a causeway. It claims sovereignty to the adjoining waters having now settled earlier disputes with Qatar, Iran and Saudi Arabia. It became a British protectorate in 1861, being used as a base from which to control piracy, before gaining independence as an emirate in 1971. In 2002, it became a constitutional monarchy under Hamad ib Isa al-Khalifah. It is primarily an Islamic country, of whom about half belong to the Shi’ia sect, but it has cosmopolitan society, now enjoying rapid economic development. It has provided the United States with a military base since the 1990s.