The Dinar reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Dinar

Dinar originating from the Roman currency, the denarius (pl. denarii).

There are several Dinar currencies used in the world today:

• Algeria: See Algerian dinar
• Bahrain: See Bahraini dinar
• Iran: Dinar is officially one hundredth of Iranian Rial
• Iraq: See Iraqi dinar
• Jordan: See Jordanian dinar
• Kuwait: See Kuwaiti dinar
• Libya: See Libyan dinar
• Serbia: See Serbian dinar
• Republic of Macedonia: See Macedonian Denar

Most of the countries using a dinar as currency are Arabic-speaking or were in the Ottoman Empire of old. Dinar in Arabic is written as "دينار".

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "Dinar" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.