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Qatar has rock carvings, inscriptions and fragments of pottery dating from 4000 BC. The early population was swelled by seasonal migration of Arab tribes and the peninsula became a centre for fishing and pearls. Commercial activity declined in the Roman era, when trade was concentrated in the Red Sea, but recovered in the 3rd century AD.
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Central Statistical Organization. Annual Statistical Abstract.
El-Nawawy, Mohammed and Iskandar, Adel, Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Westview Press, Boulder (CO), 2002
National Statistical Office: Central Statistical Organization, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Doha.
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Turner, B. (2009). Qatar. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2010. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58632-5_250
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