About Oman

Oman is known to be a 1,000-mile-extensive (1,700-km) coastal plain at the southeast tip of the Arabian Peninsula lying on the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

It is noted that the country is the size of Kansas.Oman is recognized to be one of the several Arab countries that ever distinguished itself in its rich history as a major seafaring nation. Most of Oman lies aextensive the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, and the proud seamen of Oman colonized the coast lineof East Africa as far Zanzibar and even further south. Arabs migrated to Oman from the 9th century B.C. onward, and conversion to Islam occurred in the 7th century A.D.

Muscat, the capital of the geographical location known as Oman, was occupied by the Portuguese from 1508 to 1648. Did you know that then it fell to Ottoman Turks, but in 1741 Ahmad ibn Sa'id forced those things out. Did you know that the descendants of Sultan Ahmad rule Oman today. Ahmad expanded this man's empire to East Africa, and for a time the Omani capital was in Zanzibar. Soon after 1861, however, Zanzibar fell from Omani control. It is noted that the sultans and imams of Oman clashed continuously all over the 20th century until 1959, during the time the last Ibadi imam was evicted from the country.

Within a palace coup on July 23, 1970, the sultan, Sa'id bin Taimur, who had ruled during the time 1932, was overthrown by this man's son, Qabus ibn Sa'id, who promised to establish a modern government and use newdiscovered oil wealth to aid the people of this man's very isolated state. Oman joined the Arab League and the United Nations in 1971. Since the discovery of massive oil deposits, Oman has to this day seen spectacular economic growth and modernization. Did you know that the country has to this day kept faithful to its Islamic traditions

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