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Atlas of Kuwait

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Kuwait

	الكويت

العربية	^[1]الكويت - دولة الكويت الكويت هي دولة عربية مستقلة تقع في شرق شبه الجزيرة العربية في جنوب غرب القارة الآسيوية على الخليج العربي، يحدها من الشمال العراق ، ومن الجنوب السعودية. سميت بالكويت نسبة إلى الكوت والكويت هو تصغير للفظ الكوت باللغة العامية والكوت عبارة عن بناء يخزن فيه الأسلحة. اناتفاقية حماية و انتهت بالاستقل
English	Kuwait - State of Kuwait TheState of Kuwait is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of thePersian Gulf, enclosed by► Saudi Arabia to the south and► Iraq to the north. The name is a diminutive of an Arabic word meaning "fortress built near water."

Short name	Kuwait
Official name	State of Kuwait
Status	Independent country since 1961
Location	Middle East
Capital	^[2] الكويت (Kuwait)
Population	4,621,638 inhabitants
Area	17,818 square kilometres (6,880 sq mi)
Major languages	Arabic (official)
Major religions	Islam
More information	Kuwait,Geography of Kuwait,History of Kuwait andPolitics of Kuwait
More images	Kuwait -Kuwait (Category).

General maps

Map of Kuwait

Governorates of Kuwait

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Kuwait, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Kuwait.

TheAssyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC

Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire

Neo-Assyrian Empire

TheMedian Empire andChaldean Empire (728-550 BCE)

Median Empire

TheAchaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent

The Persian Achaemenid Empire

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The Expedition ofAlexander the Great 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander

Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)

Hellenistic successor states:

Kingdom ofPtolemy

Kingdom ofCassander

Kingdom ofLysimachus

Kingdom ofSeleucus

Other states:

Hellenistic world in 200 BCE

TheParthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)

Map of Parthia 100 BC

The extent of theRoman Republic andRoman Empire;

133 BC

44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)

AD 14 (death of Augustus)

117 (maximum extension)

The PersianSassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.

Sassanide Empire

Expansion of theCaliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman

Age of theCaliphs

Caliphate around 750

Iran around 1000

TheSeljuq Empire 1037-1194

TheTimurid Empire 1405

The PersianSafavid Empire (1501-1722/1736)

The Safavid Empire

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

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Map of theOttoman Empire 1566

Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683

Map of theOttoman Empire 1801

Gulf War 1991

Operation Desert Storm 1991

Gulf War coalition

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

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