Bahrain – the name means “two seas” – was one of the first states in the Gulf to uncover oil and to construct a refinery. It never extends the levels of manufacturing enjoyed by Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, and so has had to expand its economy.

Bahrain is the Muslim country and ruled by a king Sunni, his family controls the main political and military posts. The divide between the Sunni rulers and the Shia majority has led to long-running tightness in the kingdom, which has scattered boiled over into civil misconduct.

A nation grips more than 30 islands in the Arabian Gulf, a center of major trade routes since antiquity. Bahrain Island is widely trusted to be the site of the ancient kingdom of Dilmun a trading center that traded with ancient Sumer. acknowledge the islands’ strategic importance, the Khal?fah have

opened Bahrain’s port provision to the naval fleets of foreign countries, including the United States. Bahrain is well known for its verdant groves of date palms, since ancient times it has been an entrepot for trade and a source of natural resources for the surrounding area. A commercial center that traded with the ancient dynasty that has to govern Bahrain as long as the late 18th century.