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Al Khor (city), the Glossary

Al Khor (Al Khawr) is a coastal city in northeast Qatar, located north of the capital Doha.^[1]

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Cities in Qatar
Populated coastal places in Qatar
Populated places in Al Khor

Abdullah II Al-Sabah

Sheikh Abdullah II Sabah II Al-Jabir I Al-Sabah (c. 1814 – 1892) (الشيخ عبد الله الثاني صباح الثاني الجابر الصباح.) was a cavalry commander in the Military of Kuwait and was the fifth ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1866 to 1892.

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Abu Dhalouf

Abu Dhalouf (Abū Ḑalūf) is a town on the north coast of Qatar, located in the municipality of Al Shamal. Al Khor (city) and Abu Dhalouf are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Al Bayt Stadium

Al-Bayt Stadium is a retractable roof football stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, which was opened in time for matches in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which began on 20 November 2022.

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Al Bidda

Al Bidda (البدع) is a neighborhood of Doha, Qatar.

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Al Daayen (village)

Al Daayen (Az̧ Z̧a‘āyin) is a Qatari village in the municipality of Al Daayen.

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Al Egda

Al Egda (العقدة; also spelled Al Oqda and Al Uqdah) is a district in Qatar located in the municipality of Al Khor. Al Khor (city) and al Egda are Populated places in Al Khor.

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Al Khor

Al Khor (الخور; also spelled Al Khawr), officially Al Khor and Al Thakhira, is a municipality in northeastern Qatar.

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Al Khor Airport

Al Khor Airport is located South of Al Khor in Qatar.

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Al Khor Community, also known as Umm Anaig (امعنيق), is a gated community on the coast of the Al Khor municipality in Qatar, over from the capital Doha. Al Khor (city) and al Khor Community are Populated coastal places in Qatar and Populated places in Al Khor.

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Al Khor Industrial Area

Al Khor Industrial Area (صناعية الخور; also known as Umm Qayn) is an industrial zone in Qatar located in the municipality of Al Khor. Al Khor (city) and al Khor Industrial Area are Populated places in Al Khor.

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Al Khor Island

Al Khor Island (جزيرة الخور), also known as Jazirat bin Ghanim and Purple Island, is an island located in the municipality of Al Khor on the northeast coast of Qatar.

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Al Khor Towers

The Al Khor Towers are three historical watchtowers found on Qatar's eastern coast, in the city of Al Khor.

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Al Khuwayr

Al Khuwayr (الخوير) is an abandoned village in northwest Qatar, located in the municipality of Ash Shamal.

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Al Majd Road

Al Majd Road (formerly known as the Orbital Highway) is the longest highway in Qatar, running at a length of from south-to-north.

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Al Muhannadi

The Al Mohannadi (المهندي, also spelled Al-Muhannadi) tribe is an Arab tribal confederation based primarily in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, especially in Qatar.

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Al Thakhira

Al Thakhira (Ammunition) is a town on the coast of the Al Khor municipality in Qatar, about northeast of the city of Al Khor City and from the capital Doha. Al Khor (city) and al Thakhira are Populated coastal places in Qatar and Populated places in Al Khor.

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Al Wakrah

Al Wakrah (al-Wakra) is the capital city of the Al Wakrah Municipality in Qatar. Al Khor (city) and Al Wakrah are Cities in Qatar and Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Ahsa Oasis (الْأَحْسَاء, al-ʾAhsā), also known as al-Ḥasāʾ (الْحَسَاء) or Hajar (هَجَر), is an oasis and historical region in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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Al-Khor SC

Al-Khor Sports Club (نادي الخور الرياضي) is a Qatari professional sports club based in the city of Al Khor, featuring teams in a number of sports including football, futsal, basketball, volleyball, handball, athletics, table tennis and swimming.

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Al-Khor SC Stadium

The Al-Khor Stadium (ملعب نادي الخور) is a multi-purpose stadium in the coastal town of Al Khor, in northeastern Qatar.

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Alhagi maurorum

Alhagi maurorum is a species of legume commonly known, variously, as camelthorn, Caspian manna, The name Alhagi maurorum, replacing Linnaeus' Hedysarum alhagi, was first published in Vorlesungen der Churpfälzischen physicalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft 2: 397.

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Ar-Ruʼays

Ar-Ruays (اَلرُّؤَيْس), also spelled Al Ruwais, is a port town in the Qatari municipality of Al Shamal. Al Khor (city) and ar-Ruʼays are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Ardah

Ardah (العرضة / ALA-LC: al-‘arḍah) is a type of folkloric group dance in the Arabian Peninsula, especially Saudi Arabia.

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Arthrocaulon macrostachyum

Arthrocaulon macrostachyum, synonym Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family.

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Artisanal fishing

Artisanal fishing (or traditional/subsistence fishing) consists of various small-scale, low-technology, low-capital, fishing practices undertaken by individual fisherman (as opposed to commercial fishing).

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Ashghal

Ashghal (هيئة الأشغال العامة) is the Public Works Authority of Qatar headquartered in Al Dafna, Doha.

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Avicennia marina

Avicennia marina, commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove, is a species of mangrove tree classified in the plant family Acanthaceae (formerly in the Verbenaceae or Avicenniaceae).

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Baladna

Baladna (lit) is a privately owned, government-aligned Arabic daily newspaper published in Syria.

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Bani Hajer

Bani Hajer (بني هاجر), also known as al-Hawajir, are an influential tribe in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Bani Utbah

The Bani Utbah (Benî Utbe, plural Utub; الْعُتُوب, singular Utbi; الْعُتبِيّ) is an Arab tribal confederation in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Barwa Group

Barwa Group is a real estate company based in Doha, Qatar.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Bazaar

A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.

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Béatrix Midant-Reynes

Béatrix Midant-Reynes is a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 2010 to 2015.

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Bedouin

The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Carnelian

Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semiprecious stone.

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Carsten Niebuhr

Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark.

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Central Municipal Council

The first municipal council in Qatar was formed in the early 1950s and it was reorganized in 1956.

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Charles Belgrave

Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave KBE (9 December 1894 – 28 February 1969) was a British citizen and advisor to the rulers of Bahrain from 1926 until 1957, as "Chief Administrator" or "adviserate".

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Chita, Aichi

is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Dawasir

Al Dawasir (Arabic: الدواسر) (singular: Al Dosari, Arabic: الدوسري) is an Arab tribe in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and other Gulf states.

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Doha

Doha (ad-Dawḥa or ad-Dūḥa) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Al Khor (city) and Doha are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Doha Metro

The Doha Metro (romanized: Mitru ad-Dawha) is a rapid transit system in the Doha Metropolitan Area of Qatar's capital city Doha, which became operational on 8 May 2019.

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Donkey

The donkey or ass is a domesticated equine.

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Dukhan

Dukhan (دخان) is a city in the western municipality of Al-Shahaniya in Qatar. Al Khor (city) and Dukhan are Cities in Qatar and Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).

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Esplanade

An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk.

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Fars (territory)

Fars territory or Ancient Persia (سرزمین فارس یا پارس کهن, in Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa)) in the southern part of Iran leading to the Persian Gulf, which has historical, continental, cultural and especially dialectal commonalities and includes the provinces of Khuzestan, Fars, Esfahan, Bushehr, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Hormozgan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and the western part of Kerman Province, which is known as the origin of Persian language and inherited from Middle Persian.

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Fly-in

A fly-in, also called an aviation meet, is a pre-arranged gathering of aircraft, pilots and passengers for recreational and social purposes.

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The France national football team (Équipe de France de football) represents France in men's international football.

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Gangnam District

Gangnam District is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea.

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Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia

The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia (nicknamed Lorimer) is a two-volume encyclopedia compiled by John Gordon Lorimer.

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Gender role

A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gulf Arabic

Gulf Arabic (خليجي local pronunciation: or اللهجة الخليجية, local pronunciation) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, southern Iraq, eastern Saudi Arabia, northern Oman, and by some Iranian Arabs.

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Gulf Cooperation Council

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (مجلس التعاون لدول الخلیج العربية.), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; مجلس التعاون الخليجي), is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Gypsophila vaccaria

Gypsophila vaccaria is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.

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Halocnemum strobilaceum

Halocnemum strobilaceum is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Salicornioideae of the family Amaranthaceae.

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Halophila stipulacea

Halophila stipulacea is a species of seagrass in the Hydrocharitaceae family.

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Haloxylon salicornicum

Haloxylon salicornicum is a shrub or undershrub belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.

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Hamad Medical Corporation

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is Qatar’s main not-for-profit health care provider, and is based in Doha.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Henry Field (anthropologist)

Henry Field (December 15, 1902 – January 4, 1986) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist.

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House of Thani

The House of Thani (translit) is the ruling family of Qatar, with origins tracing back to the Northern Arab Banu Tamim tribe.

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Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani

Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani (جاسمبن محمد آل ثاني; c. 1825 – 17 July 1913), also known as "The Founder", was the founder of the State of Qatar.

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John Gordon Lorimer (civil servant)

John Gordon Lorimer CIE (14 June 1870 – 8 February 1914), also known as J. G. Lorimer, was a British diplomat, historian and colonial administrator.

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Kassites

The Kassites were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire and until (short chronology).

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Katara Cultural Village

Katara Mosque Katara Cultural Village (الحي الثقافي كتارا), also known simply as Katara (كتارا), is a cultural and commercial complex in Doha, Qatar, located on the eastern coast between West Bay and the Pearl.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lusail

Lusail (لوسيل) is the second-largest city in Qatar after Doha, and the economic capital of Qatar, located on the coast, in the southern part of the municipality of Al Daayen. Al Khor (city) and Lusail are Cities in Qatar and Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Madinat ash Shamal

Madinat ash Shamal (الشمال) is the capital city of the municipality of Al Shamal in Qatar. Al Khor (city) and Madinat ash Shamal are Cities in Qatar.

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Manasir (tribe)

The Al Manasir (المناصير, singular Mansuri) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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May and Gilan

May and Gilan (May and Ghilân; also spelled Mai and Ghaylan) is a legend, or hikâya, originating from Qatar.

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Mesaieed

Mesaieed (Musaī'īd, also transliterated as Umm Sa'id) is an industrial city in Al Wakrah Municipality located south of the Qatari capital Doha. Al Khor (city) and Mesaieed are Cities in Qatar and Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Ministry of Culture (Qatar)

The Ministry of Culture (nativename_a) is the ministry responsible for administering Qatar's cultural policies and programs.

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Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics

The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (Arabic: وزارة التخطيط التنموي والإحصاء) is a governmental agency in the State of Qatar.

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Ministry of Municipality (Qatar)

The Ministry of Municipality of Qatar is the ministry that provides municipal services to citizens and residents in Qatar.

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The Morocco national football team (منتخب الْمَغْرِب لِكُرَّةُ الْقَدَم) represents Morocco in men's international football, and is controlled by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Morocco.

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Municipalities of Qatar

Since 2015, Qatar has been divided into eight municipalities.

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Music of Qatar

The music of Qatar is based on sea folk poetry, song and dance.

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National Day (Qatar)

Qatar National Day (Al-Yawm al-Waṭani li-Qaṭar) is a national commemoration of Qatar's unification in 1878.

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Natural gas in Qatar

The natural gas in Qatar covers a large portion of the world supply of natural gas.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Oar

An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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Oil well

An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Oud

The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.

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Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

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Pan-Arabism

Pan-Arabism (al-wiḥda al-ʿarabīyyah) is a pan-nationalist ideology that espouses the unification of all Arab people in a single nation-state, consisting of all Arab countries of West Asia and North Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, which is referred to as the Arab world.

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Pearl hunting

Pearl hunting, also known as pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Persian Gulf Residency

The Persian Gulf Residency was a subdivision of the British Empire from 1822 until 1971, whereby the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of political and economic control over several states in the Persian Gulf, including what is today known as the United Arab Emirates (formerly called the "Trucial States") and at various times southern portions of Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar.

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Petroleum industry

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Qatar

Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

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Qatar Digital Library

Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is a bilingual online library which was launched as a joint venture by a partnership consisting of Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library and the British Library in October 2014.

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Qatar Museums

Qatar Museums (formerly the Qatar Museums Authority) is a Qatari government entity that oversees the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, MIA Park, QM Gallery at the Katara Cultural Village, ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space, the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre, and archaeological projects throughout Qatar, as well as the development of future projects and museums that will highlight its collections across multiple areas of activity including Orientalist art, photography, sports, children's education, and wildlife conservation.

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Qatar National Unity Front

The Qatar National Unity Front (أمامالوحدة قطر الوطني) was a nationalist labor group formed in Qatar in April 1963.

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QatarEnergy LNG

QatarEnergy LNG, formerly Qatargas, is the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) company.

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Qatari Arabic

Qatari Arabic (al-ʻArabiyyah al-Qațariyyah) is a variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in Qatar characterized by its distinct phonetic and syntactic features.

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Qatari folklore

Qatari folklore largely revolves around sea-based activities and the accolades of renowned folk heroes.

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Qatari riyal

The Qatari riyal (sign: QR in Latin, ر.ق in Arabic; ISO code: QAR) is the currency of the State of Qatar.

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Ras Laffan Industrial City

Ras Laffan Industrial City (Ra’s Lafān) is a Qatari industrial hub located north of Doha. Al Khor (city) and Ras Laffan Industrial City are Cities in Qatar, Populated coastal places in Qatar and Populated places in Al Khor.

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Ras Matbakh

Ras Matbakh (Ra's al Maţbakh) is a settlement in Qatar located in the municipality of Al Khor. Al Khor (city) and Ras Matbakh are Populated places in Al Khor.

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Rowing

Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion.

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Sabkha

A sabkha (سبخة) is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate.

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Sail

A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.

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Salicornia europaea

Salicornia europaea, known as marsh samphire, common glasswort or just glasswort, is a halophytic annual dicot flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone.

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Simaisma

Simaisma (سُمَيْسِمَة; also spelled Sumaysimah) is a small seaside town located on the eastern coast of Qatar 30 km north of the capital Doha. Al Khor (city) and Simaisma are Populated coastal places in Qatar and Populated places in Al Khor.

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Sonchus

Sonchus is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae and are commonly known as sow thistles (less commonly hare thistles or hare lettuces).

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.

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Tekfen Construction and Installation

Tekfen Holding A.S. (Tekfen Group) is a Turkey-based holding company involved in engineering and construction, textile, food processing and other industrial sectors.

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The Pearl Island

The Pearl Island (jazirat alluwlua) in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of nearly four square kilometers.

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Tidal creek

A tidal creek or tidal channel is a narrow inlet or estuary that is affected by the ebb and flow of ocean tides.

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Umm Qarn

Umm Qarn (أمقرن) is a Qatari village in the municipality of Al Daayen.

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Umm Salal

Umm Salal (also spelled Umm Slal) is a municipality in the State of Qatar.

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Umm Salal Ali

Umm Salal Ali (Umm Şalāl ‘Alī) is the seat of the municipality of Umm Salal in Qatar.

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UTC+03:00

UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00.

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Watchtower

A watchtower or watch tower is a type of fortification used in many parts of the world.

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Webuild

Webuild SpA (formerly Salini Impregilo SpA) is an Italian industrial group specialising in construction and civil engineering.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.

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Zone 74, Qatar

Zone 74 is a zone of the municipality of Al Khor in the state of Qatar.

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Zones of Qatar

In the administrative divisions of Qatar, zones (مَنَاطِق manāṭiq; singular مِنْطَقَة minṭaqa) are the second-highest level of government after municipalities.

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Zubarah

Zubarah (الزبارة), also referred to as Al Zubarah or Az Zubarah, is a ruined, ancient town located on the northwestern coast of the Qatar peninsula in the Al Shamal municipality, about from the capital Doha. Al Khor (city) and Zubarah are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Khor_(city)

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See also

Cities in Qatar

Populated coastal places in Qatar

Populated places in Al Khor

References