Dinar
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- For the city in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey, see Dinar, Turkey.
The dinar is the currency unit of various countries, most of them Arabic-speaking. The word "dinar" (دينار in Arabic and Persian) is derived from denarius, a Roman currency.
[edit] Countries that use dinar as their currency
- Algeria: the Algerian dinar
- Bahrain: the Bahraini dinar
- Iran: the Iranian rial is divided into 100 dinars
- Iraq: the Iraqi dinar
- Jordan: the Jordanian dinar
- Kuwait: the Kuwaiti dinar
- Libya: the Libyan dinar
- Serbia (except Kosovo): the Serbian dinar (Kosovo uses the euro in most of the territory)
- Sudan: the Sudanese dinar (formerly the Sudanese pound)
- Republic of Macedonia: the Macedonian denar
- Tunisia: the Tunisian dinar
[edit] Countries that previously used dinar as their currency
- Abu Dhabi: the Abu Dhabi dinar
- Bosnia and Hercegovina: the Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
- Croatia: the Croatian dinar
- Republic of Serbian Krajina: the Krajina dinar
- Republika Srpska: the Republika Srpska dinar
- Federation of South Arabia: the South Arabian dinar
- South Yemen: the South Yemeni dinar
- Yugoslavia: the Yugoslav dinar
[edit] See also
| Dinars | |
|---|---|
| Current | Algerian dinar | Bahraini dinar | Islamic gold dinar | Iraqi dinar | Jordanian dinar | Kuwaiti dinar | Libyan dinar | Macedonian denar | Tunisian dinar | Serbian dinar | Sudanese dinar |
| Defunct | Abu Dhabi dinar | Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar | Croatian dinar | Krajina dinar | Republika Srpska dinar | South Arabian dinar | South Yemeni dinar | Yugoslav dinar |
| As subunit | Iranian rial |
| See also | E-dinar |
