Eastern Arabia

Eastern Arabia (Bahrain) (Arabic: ٱلْبَحْرَيْن, romanized: Al-Baḥrayn), is a region stretched from Basra to Khasab along the Persian Gulf coast and included parts of modern-day Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Eastern Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman. The entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia was known as "Bahrain" for a millennium.

This article is about the historical region of Eastern Arabia. For the present-day state, see Bahrain.
Eastern Arabia
Bahrain
Al-Baḥrayn (ٱلْبَحْرَيْن)
Historical region of Arabia
Eastern Arabia (historical region of Bahrain) on a 1745 Bellin map
Country Bahrain
 Qatar
 Saudi Arabia
 United Arab Emirates
 Kuwait
 Iraq
 Oman

Until very recently, the whole of Eastern Arabia, from the Shatt al-Arab to the mountains of Oman, was a place where people moved around, settled and married unconcerned by national borders. The people of Eastern Arabia shared a culture based on the sea, as seafaring peoples.

Nowadays, Eastern Arabia is part of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The modern-day states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE are the most commonly listed Gulf Arab states; most of Saudi Arabia is not geographically part of Eastern Arabia.

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