Word: tribally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persian today are the Latin and Greek of the Mohammedan world. The present picture of Arabia is that of a gentleman in "rejuced circumstances" as Captain Costigan would say, but still a gentleman. The British Government, recognizing the potential authority in the remnants of the Arab empire, the tribal state of Irak, has attempted to set up as independent the territory held under a mandate. A twenty year treaty signed at Bagdad on October 10 incorporates the Arabs of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in a self-governing state...