Trucial States

/ ˈtruːʃəl /

plural noun

1. Also called: Trucial Sheikhdoms.  Trucial Oman.  Trucial Coast. a former name (until 1971) of the United Arab Emirates

Example Sentences

In public, British officials asserted that the three islands belonged to the Trucial States.

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In 1965, the most politically, socially and educationally progressive of the ruling sheikhs in the Trucial States, Saqr bin Sultan al-Qassemi of Sharjah, fell foul of the British.

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Born December 25, 1949, the second son of late ruler Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, he grew up in what was known as the Trucial States, a collection of Arab sheikhdoms along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf that were part of a British protectorate since 1820.

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He moved to the United Arab Emirates in 1975, just a few years after the federation’s creation out of a collection of sheikhdoms that the British referred to as the Trucial States.

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Dubai initially split off from Abu Dhabi in 1833, and the pair fought a border war in 1947 when the British still held sway over what was then known as the Trucial States.

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