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Trucial States

(Encyclopedia)Trucial States: see United Arab Emirates. ...

Sinai campaign

(Encyclopedia)Sinai campaign: see Arab-Israeli Wars. ...

Pirate Coast

(Encyclopedia)Pirate Coast: see United Arab Emirates. ...

Yom Kippur War

(Encyclopedia)Yom Kippur War: see Arab-Israeli Wars. ...

Six-Day War

(Encyclopedia)Six-Day War: see Arab-Israeli Wars. ...

(Encyclopedia)Leo III (Leo the Isaurian or Leo the Syrian), c.680–741, Byzantine emperor (717–41). He was probably born in N Syria (rather than in Isauria, as once thought). He held diplomatic and military post...

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

(Encyclopedia)Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), multinational organization (est. 1960, formally constituted 1961) that coordinates petroleum policies and economic aid among oil-producing nations...

Homs

(Encyclopedia)Homs hĭms [key], city (1995 est. pop. 455,000), capital of Homs governorate, W central Syria, on the Orontes River. A commercial center located in a fertile plain where wheat, grapes, fruit, and vege...

Kissinger, Henry Alfred

(Encyclopedia)Kissinger, Henry Alfred kĭsˈənjər [key], 1923–2023, American political scientist and U.S. secretary ...

Tripoli , city, Libya

(Encyclopedia)Tripoli trĭpˈəlē [key], ancient Oea, Arab. Tarabulus, city (1984 pop. 990,697), capital of Libya and of Tripoli dist., NW Libya, a port on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a commercial, industrial, ad...