The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (AGDA) is the bilingual, free and open-access online national archive of the United Arab Emirates which was launched in 2019. It offers digitized documents about the events concerning the Gulf countries from the 1820s.

History and coverage

The AGDA was created in 2019 as a result of the combination of the archives of the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. The related agreement was signed by the parties in 2017. It is part of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and contains videos, photographs and documents in Arabic and English. The latter also includes letters, memos, transcripts, and official correspondence some of which are those of the oil companies which involved in the oil exploration activities in the region. The materials are constructed through the

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and can be accessed via Internet and mobile devices. The archive contains nearly more than a quarter of a million documents and photographs covering the events related to the region from the 1820s to the 2000s. Some of them are the papers produced by the

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United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...

Government agencies established in 2019 Organisations based in Abu Dhabi Geographic region-oriented digital libraries Open-access archives History of the Persian Gulf