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Timeline Of Kuwait City

The following is a timeline of the history of Kuwait City, Al Asimah Governorate, Kuwait, and its metro surroundings.

18th century

  • Early 1700s — Small fishing village of Grane or Kureyn under the control of the Bani Khalid Emirate, independent of Ottoman control since 1670
  • 1750s — Bani Utbah migrants establish the Sheikhdom of Kuwait under the auspices of the Bani Khalid
  • 1775–1779 — Siege of Basra by Persia prompts Iraqi merchants and shipwrights to relocate to Kuwait City, along with trade routes from India, Muscat, and Persia to Baghdad, Aleppo, Smyrna, and Constantinople
  • 1792 — E. India Company establishes Kuwaiti factory, tying the city's trade to East Africa

19th century

20th century

21st century

Kuwait City, from the International Space Station in 2006
Map of Kuwait City, 2011

See also

References

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