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The Hawar Islands (; transliterated: Juzur Ḩawār ) are a group of islands situated off the west coast of Qatar in the Gulf of Bahrain of the Persian Gulf.
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A Hawari separatist movement exists in Europe but there is little evidence of support for their movement in the Hawar Islands.
The Hawar Islands used to be one of the settlements of the Bahraini branch of the Dawasir who settled there in the early 19th century and on the main island of Bahrain in 1845 in the areas of Zallaq and Budaiya.
Qatar and Bahrain have argued over who owns the Hawar Islands.
In 2001, the International Court of Justice gave Bahrain sovereignty over Hawar Islands while giving Qatar sovereignty over smaller disputed islands and the Zubarah region on mainland Qatar.
Qatar's northwest coast is fewer than from the main islands of Bahrain ; however, Qatar's northwest coast is only from the Hawar Islands of Bahrain.
The territorial dispute with Bahrain over the Hawar Islands and the maritime boundary dispute with Bahrain were solved by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in The Hague.
In the June 2001 decision, Bahrain kept the Hawar Islands and Qit ' at Jaradah but dropped claims to Janan Island and Zubarah on mainland Qatar, while Qatar retained significant maritime areas and their resources.
The long standing territorial dispute with Qatar over the Hawar Islands and the maritime boundary were resolved in 2001 by a compromise decision of the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ).
It includes parts of Bahrain's old municipalities-Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Ar Rifa ' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah, and Juzur Hawar ( the Hawar Islands ).
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In May 2010, Qatari coastguards injured a Bahraini fisherman reigniting a dispute over the Hawar Islands.
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Hawar and the adjacent islands immediately off the west coast are the subject of a territorial dispute between Qatar and Bahrain.
Hawar and the fifteen small islands near it are the subject of a territorial dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.
Hawar and group
In 1936, Bahrain claimed rule over a group of islands, the largest of which is Hawar, on the west coast of Qatar because it had established a small military garrison there.
The other islands of significance include Nabih Saleh, which is northwest of Sitrah ; Jidda Island and Umm as Sabaan, to the north of Umm an Nasan ; and a group of islands, the largest of which is Hawar, near the coast of Qatar.
Hawar and islands
In 2002, Bahrain applied to have the Hawar islands recognised as a World Heritage Site, due to their unique environment and habitat for endangered species.
Hawar and Persian
The Kurdish language is written either using a variant of the Latin alphabet, according to a system introduced by Jeladet Ali Bedirkhan in 1932 ( the so-called Bedirxan alphabet, or Hawar after the Hawar magazine ), or using a variant of the Persian alphabet, the so-called Sorani alphabet, named for the city of Soran, Iraq.
Hawar and .
By far the largest island is Hawar.
Hawar is nineteen kilometers long and about one and one half kilometers wide.
The word ' Hur ' is the plural of both Ahwar ( Masculine ) and Hawra ( Feminine ) which literally translates as " white-eyed ", or persons distinguished by Hawar, signifying " intense whiteness of the eyeballs and lustrous black of the pupils.
The Hawar is used in Turkey, Syria and Armenia ; the Sorani in Iraq and Iran.
A recent suggestion is the so-called Yekgirtú script, which proposes to unify the Hawar and Sorani systems.
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