Ethnic groups in Bahrain

ethnic group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Islands and the coast of Borneo

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The Bahārna (, or ), are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs and Persians indigenous to the historical region of Bahrain. Regarded by some scholars as the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia, most Bahraini citizens are Baharna. They inhabited the region before the arrival of the Banu Utbah, from which the Bahraini royal family descends, in the 18th century.

aspect of history

ethnic group in Bahrain of Iranian descent