KUWET (KuwEIT, KOWEIT)

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KUWET (KuwEIT, KOWEIT) , a port in Arabia at the north-western

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

of the Persian Gulf in 29 20' N. and 48" E., about 8o m. due S. of Basra and 6o m. S.W. of the mouth of the Shat el Arab. The name Kuwet is the diminutive form of.Kut, a common

term

TERM

in Irak for a walled

village

VILLAGE

; it is also shown in some maps as Grane or Grain, a corruption of Kuren, the diminutive of Karn, a horn. It lies on the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

side of a bay 20 M. long and 5 M. wide, the mouth of which is protected by two islands, forming a fine natural harbour, with good anchorage in from 4 to 9 fathoms of water. The town has 15,000 inhabitants and is clean and well built; the country around being practically desert, it depends entirely on the sea and its trade, and its sailors have a high reputation as the most skilful and trustworthy on the Persian Gulf; while its position as the nearest port to Upper Nejd gives it

great

GREAT

importance as the port of entry for

rice

, piece goods, &c., and of export for horses, sheep, wool and other products of the interior. Kuwet was recommended in 185o by General F. R. Chesney as the terminus of his proposed Euphrates Valley railway, and since 1898, when the extension of the Anatolian railway to Bagdad and the Gulf has been under discussion, attention has again been directed to it. An alternative site for the terminus has been suggested in Urn Khasa, at the head of the Khor `Abdallah, where a branch of the Shat el Arab formerly entered the sea; it lies some 20 M. N.E. of Kuwet and separated from it by the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

of Bubian, which has for some time been in Turkish occupation. An attempt by Turkey to occupy Kuwet in 1893 was met by a formal protest from

Great

GREAT

Britain against any infringement of the status quo, and in 1899 Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwet placed his interests under British

protection

PROTECTION

.
The total trade passing through Kuwet in 19041905 was valued at 16c,oco. The imports include arms and ammunition, piece goods,

rice

, coffee, sugar, &c.; and the exports, horses, pearls,

dates

DATES

, wool, &c. The steamers of the British India Steamship Company

call

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

fortnightly. (R. A. W.)

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