Kuwait Bay

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Jōn al Kuwayt (Arabic: جون الكويت‎, Gulf Arabic pronunciation: /d͡ʒoːn‿ɪlkweːt/), also known as Kuwait Bay, is a bay in Kuwait. It is part of the Persian Gulf. Kuwait City lies on a tip of the bay.

History[]

Following the post-glacial flooding of the Persian Gulf basin, debris from the Tigris–Euphrates river formed a substantial delta, creating most of the land in present-day Kuwait and establishing the present coastlines.[1] During the Ubaid period (6500 BC), Kuwait was the central site of interaction between the peoples of Mesopotamia and Neolithic Eastern Arabia,[2][3][4][5] mainly centered around Bahra 1 in Subiya.[6][7][8] One of the world's earliest reed-boats was discovered at site H3 in northern Kuwait dating back to the Ubaid period.[9]

In 4000 BC until 2000 BC, the bay of Kuwait was home to the Dilmun civilization.[10][11][12][13] Dilmun's control of the bay of Kuwait included mainland Akkaz,[10] Umm an Namil Island,[10][14] and Failaka Island.[10][13] At its peak in 2000 BC, the Dilmun empire controlled the trade routes from Mesopotamia to India and the Indus Valley civilization. Dilmun's commercial power began to decline after 1800 BC. Piracy flourished throughout the region during Dilmun's decline. After 600 BC, the Babylonians added Dilmun to their empire.

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  1. ^ "The Post-glacial Flooding of the Persian Gulf, animation and images". University of California, Santa Barbara.
  2. ^ Robert Carter (2010-10-25). Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic: The Evidence from H3, As-Sabiyah, an Ubaid-Related Site in Kuwait. BRILL. ISBN 9789004163591.
  3. ^ Robert Carter. "Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC" (PDF).
  4. ^ Robert Carter. "Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic: The Evidence from H3, As-Sabiyah, an Ubaid-Related Site in Kuwait".
  5. ^ "How Kuwaitis lived more than 8,000 years ago". Kuwait Times. 2014-11-25.
  6. ^ Robert Carter (2002). "Ubaid-period boat remains from As-Sabiyah: excavations by the British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 32: 13–30. JSTOR 41223721.
  7. ^ Robert Carter; Graham Philip. "Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and integration in the late prehistoric societies of the Middle East" (PDF).
  8. ^ "PAM 22". pcma.uw.edu.pl.
  9. ^ Weekes, Richard (2001-03-31). "Secrets of world's oldest boat are discovered in Kuwait sands". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Kuwait's archaeological sites reflect human history & civilizations (2:50 – 3:02)". Ministry of Interior News.
  11. ^ Glassner, Jean-Jacques; Herron, Donald M. (1990). The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. Jean-Jacques Glassner. p. 7. ISBN 9780801873898.
  12. ^ Nyrop, Richard F. (2008). Area Handbook for the Persian Gulf States. Richard F. Nyrop. p. 11. ISBN 9781434462107. From about 4000 to 2000 B.C. the civilization of Dilmun dominated 250 miles of the eastern coast of Arabia from present-day Kuwait to Bahrain and extended sixty miles into the interior to the oasis of Hufuf (see fig. 2).
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Calvet, Yves (1989). "FAILAKA AND THE NORTHERN PART OF DILMUN". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 19: 5-11.
  14. ^ Connan, Jacques; Carter, Robert (2007). "A geochemical study of bituminous mixtures from Failaka and Umm an-Namel (Kuwait), from the Early Dilmun to the Early Islamic period". Jacques Connan, Robert Carter. 18 (2): 139–181. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.2007.00283.x.

Coordinates: 29°26′N 47°56′E / 29.433°N 47.933°E / 29.433; 47.933


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