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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 See also:

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

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