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Jabir I al-Sabah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (113 words) |
 | Jaber bin Abdullah (Arabic: جابر بن عبد الله) (Jaber I or Jaber Al-Aish) was the third ruler of Kuwait's royal al-Sabah dynasty, ruling from 1814-1859. |
| The British requested that Bin Abdullah allow them to turn Kuwait into a "protectorate", he refused and asserted that Kuwait was an independent nation. |
| Nicknamed Jaber Al-Aish, Bin Abdullah was said to have generously given rice and bread to the poor. |
| Encyclopedia: Sabah (4497 words) |
| Sabah is generally mountainous, with the Banjaran Crocker range of central mountains varying in height from about 1,000 metres to 3,000 metres, which at its peak of Mount Kinabalu rises up to 4000 metres, and with several lower ranges of hills near the coasts. |
| The Philippines claims the whole of Sabah as part of its territory, based upon the Sultanate of Brunei's cession of its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu in 1703, because of military assitance given by the latter to the former. |
| Sabah's economy was traditionally heavily lumber dependent, based on export of tropical timber, but with increasing depletion of the natural forests and ecological efforts to save remaining natural rainforest areas, palm oil has emerged as a more sustainable resource. |
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