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The Neutral Zone is an anomalous territory. When Britain dismembered the Ottoman Empire and sphere of influence at the end of the First World War, it left a sort of no-man’s land between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, to avoid the difficulties of determining a firm boundary between the countries. It was a matter of small import in those days because the desert was occupied by no more than a few wandering Bedouin.
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© 2013 Colin J. Campbell and Alexander Wöstmann
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Neutral Zone. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_63
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