Dinar

The dinar is the name of the Monnaie several countries. The etymology of the word dinar (دينار in Arab and Farsi) is the same one as that of the French word sum of money. It acted in fact in the beginning of an old Roman currency , the denarius ( denarii in the plural). The various currencies bearing this name are today:

Current monetary units

• the Algerian Dinar in,

• the Dinar bahraini with the Bahrain,
• the Iraqi Dinar in,
• the Jordanian Dinar in Jordan,
• the Kuwaiti Dinar with,
• the Libyan Dinar in,
• the Serb Dinar in Serbia, except with the Kosovo which uses the Euro exclusively,
• the Sudanese Dinar with the Sudan
• the Tunisian Dinar in Tunisia.

In Iran, a dinar is the 100e started from a rial.

To these currencies, one can add an alternative, of the same etymology:

• the denar Macedonian in.

Obsolete monetary units

• the Yugoslav Dinar in.
• the Iranian Dinar

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