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KURIA MURIA ISLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURIA MURIA ISLANDS  , a

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group of five islands in the Arabian
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Sea,
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close under the
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coast of
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Arabia, belonging to
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Britain and forming a dependency of
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Aden . They are lofty and rocky, and have a
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total
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area of 28 sq. m., that of the largest, Hallania, being 22 sq. m . They are identified with the
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ancient Insulae Zenobii, and were ceded by the
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sultan of
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Muscat to Britain in 1854 for the purposes of a
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cable station . They are inhabited by a few families of
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Arabs, who however speak a
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dialect differing considerably from the
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ordinary Arabic . The islands yield some
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guano .

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