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Trucial States Seven Arab sheikdoms on the Persian Gulf, which since 1971 have been known as the United Arab Emirates. It refers to the maritime truce made with Britain in 1836 (and subsequently renewed and extended) by which local rulers undertook to abstain from maritime warfare.

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