Dibba Al-Fujairah

Dibba Al-Fujairah (دبا الفجيرة) is a name of a settlement in the emirate of Fujairah located on the North east part of the United Arab Emirates. It is geographically part of the Dibba region. Dibba Al-Fujairah is considered to be the 2nd largest city in the emirate of Fujairah. With an area of 600 square kilometres, Dibba Al-Fujairah has a population of 30,000.

Some of the settlements in Dibba Al-Fujairah:

Coordinates: 25°35′28″N 56°15′36″E / 25.591°N 56.260°E / 25.591; 56.260

Dibba

Dibba (Arabic: دبا; Portuguese: Doba), sometimes spelled Diba or Daba, is a coastal region at the northern tip of the eastern Arabian peninsula on the Gulf of Oman. It is politically divided into three segments:

History

This large natural harbour on the east coast of the northern Emirates has been an important site of maritime trade and settlement since the pre-Islamic era. There is some slight evidence, mainly from tombs, of settlement during the later 2nd millennium and the early first millennium BCE, contemporary with such sites as Shimal, Tell Abraq and Rumeilah. There is also scattered occupation during the period of al-Dur and Mileiha but it is in the period just prior to, and after, the coming of Islam that we hear most about Dibba. Under the Sasanians, and their Omani clients the Al-Julanda, an important market existed at Dibba and that it was sometimes the capital of Oman. According to Ibn Habib "merchants from Sindh, India, China, people of the East and West came to it."