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Abdullah ibn Hussein was the first king of Jordan. He was born in 1882 at Mecca and died in 1951. After taking a prominent part in the Arab revolt against Turkey from 1916 to 1918, he was appointed emir of the British mandated territory of Transjordan in 1921, and in 1946 with the end of the mandate became king, in 1948 being also proclaimed king of Palestine though with the formation of the state of Israel he lost sovereignty of Palestine. He was assassinated by Arab nationalists in 1951.
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Abu-Abdullah Boabdil was the last Moorish king of Granada. He gained the throne in 1481 by expelling his father, Mulei Hassan; and became the vassal of Ferdinand of Aragon. By his tyranny he provoked the hostility of his own subjects, and Ferdinand, taking advantage of the dissensions which prevailed, laid siege to Granada. The Moors made a valiant defence, but Boabdil capitulated, and retired to a domain of the Alpujarras assigned him by the victor. He afterwards passed into Africa, and fell in battle while assisting the King of Fes in an attempt to dethrone the King of Morocco.
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Shikh Muhammad Abdullah ('The Lion of Kashmir') was a Kashmiri politician. He was born in 1905 at Soura and did in 1982. He was a major protagonist in the Kashmiri struggle for independence from India, actively encouraging the Muslim struggle against the Hindu maharajah. In 1948 he was appointed Prime Minister of Kashmir, before being imprisoned in 1953 for treason and encouraging Kashmiri independence from India. He was released in 1962 and continued to campaign for Kashmiri independence, persuading the Indian government to grant Kashmir some autonomy.
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The Abdullah is a British-built Jordanian Hawk Class fast attack craft delivered in early 1990. The Al Hussein has a displacement of 124 tons fully loaded and carries a crew of three officers and 13 men. Two MTU 16V 396 TB 94 diesel engines provide a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 750 miles at 15 knots and 1500 miles at 11 knots. Armaments consist of two Oerlikon GCM-A03 30 mm guns arranged as a single pair; one Oerlikon GAM-B01 20 mm gun and two machine-guns.
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Amman is the capital of Jordan. The city was first settled around 4000 BC. In the 3rd century BC Amman was conquered by Ptolemy II Philadelphus and renamed Philadelphia. By 1300 the original city had disappeared, only to be resettled as a village during the 1880s by Circassians from Russia. In 1921, when the British established the protected emirate of Transjordan the Emir Abdullah made Amman his capital and after Jordanian independence in 1946 the city grew rapidly.
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The State of Qatar is a country in Arabia. It a total area of 11,000 km2. The climate is desert; hot, dry, humid and sultry in the summer. The terrain is mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel. Natural resources are crude oil, natural gas, fish. The religion is 95% Muslim. The official language is Arabic with English commonly used as a second language. Qatar was once under the control of Bahrain, but in 1916 the British government formally recognised Sheikh Abdullah-al-Thani as Qatar's ruler and in 1971 Qatar became an independent state.
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