MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · United Arab Emirates
ONE LAND · 2 ATLASES
United Arab Emirates, on the map of history
What was United Arab Emirates before it was United Arab Emirates? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
United Arab Emirates · The Great War, 1914–1918
| NOV 1914 | Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
United Arab Emirates · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | US-aligned states — the opening position |
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