Flag of the United Arab Emirates Incredible Britain constrained a large number of the little Arab states on the southern shoreline of the Persian Gulf to sign the alleged "General Treaty" of January 8, 1820. These states, which consented to avoid furnished clash, were in this manner alluded to as Trucial Oman, or the Trucial Coast. To their plain warning the General Treaty necessitated that they include a white outskirt as an image of their serene expectations and their relationship with Britain. In 1966, six years after the development of the Trucial States Council, just two of the nations (Ash-Shāriqah and Raʾs al-Khaymah) still utilized the white-circumscribed warning. Three states—ʿAjmān, Dubayy, and Umm al-Qaywayn—had diminished the fringe to a white vertical stripe at the crane, and the last had likewise consolidated a white star and sickle in the focal point of the red. Abu Dhabi had added a white canton to its warning. Just Al-Fujayrah, which never marked the...