Dinar
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A five-Iraqi dinar note featuring Saddam Hussein
The word Dinar (in Arabic and Persian: دينار) traces its origin back to the Roman currency, the denarius (pl. denarii).
Numerous countries today use Dinar as the name for their currencies:
- Algeria: See Algerian dinar
- Bahrain: See Bahraini dinar
- Iran: A dinar is officially one hundredth part of an Iranian Rial
- Iraq: See Iraqi dinar
- Jordan: See Jordanian dinar
- Kuwait: See Kuwaiti dinar
- Libya: See Libyan dinar
- Serbia: See Serbian dinar
- Sudan: See Sudanese dinar (formerly used the pound)
- Republic of Macedonia: See Macedonian Denar
- Tunisia: See Tunisian dinar
Most of the countries using dinar as the name of their currency are Arabic-speaking or were once part of the Ottoman Empire.