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Article: IRAQ-KUWAIT TENSIONS ARE ROOTED IN HISTORY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1990
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Iraq's annexation of Kuwait this week culminates more than a
half-century of aggression, hostility and occasional cooperation
between the two Arab nations.
For centuries, Kuwait and the territory that would become
Iraq were part of the Ottoman Empire, based in what is now Turkey.
The empire gained control of the region by defeating the Byzantine
Empire in the 15th century.
The formation of Kuwait dates back to the 18th century when
several families from the nomadic Anizah tribe from the Arabian
Peninsula migrated to the shores of the Persian Gulf. An autonomous
sheikdom was established in 1756, when a sheik from the Sabah
family was appointed by the settlers.
Near the end of the ...