New Delhi: Google has put up a doodle on its Kuwaiti home page to commemorate Kuwait's 51st Independence Day.
Kuwait was a British protectorate from 1899 until 25 February 1961.
The Google doodle for Kuwait Independence Day is inspired by the emblem of Kuwait which was adopted after the independence of the country in 1962. The emblem includes a dhow (traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts) sailing in the sea with a Kuwaiti flag.
February 26, the day after the Independence Day, is celebrated as Liberation Day. Iraq had invaded and annexed Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Following the Gulf War in which a 34-nation coalition led by the United States, Kuwait was liberated from Iraqi occupation on 26 February 1991.
Other Arab countries also have a different doodle on their Google home pages which shows the long journey that Ibn Battuta undertook seven centuries ago to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Moroccan explorer.
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