State of Qatar

This article is about the specific polity State of Qatar and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Is a country in Western Asia that occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. Qatar as a nation was founded in 1826 by the House of Thani. It was a British protectorate from 1916 to 1971, when it gained independence.

Establishment

September 1971: On 3 September 1971, those "special treaty arrangements" that were "inconsistent with full international responsibility as a sovereign and independent state" were terminated. This was done under an agreement reached between the Ruler of Qatar and the Government of the United Kingdom.