By the late 1720s, the village was trading across the Arabian Sea with Muscat and the Persian Gulf region.

The local Sindhi populace built a small fort, that was constructed for the protection of the city, armed with cannons imported by Sindhi sailors from Muscat, Oman.

The relatively recent name of " Muscat and Oman " ( which was abolished in 1970 in favor of " Sultanate of Oman "), implies two historically irreconcilable political cultures: the coastal tradition, the more cosmopolitan, secular, Muscat tradition of the coast ruled by the sultan ; and the interior tradition of insularity, tribal in origin and ruled by an imam according to the ideological tenets of Ibadism.

The leader of the revolt, Ahmad ibn Said al Said, was elected sultan of Muscat upon the expulsion of the Persians.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

As a result of this struggle, the empire — through the mediation of the British Government under the Canning Award — was divided in 1861 into two separate principalities: Zanzibar ( with its East African dependencies ), and Muscat and Oman.

Muscat and Oman was the object of Franco-British rivalry throughout the 18th century.

Their traditional association was confirmed in 1951 through a new treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation by which the United Kingdom recognized the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman as a fully independent state.

This conflict was resolved temporarily by the Treaty of Seeb, which granted the imam rule in the interior Imamate of Oman, while recognising the sovereignty of the sultan in Muscat and its surroundings.

The Indian consulate was opened in Muscat in February 1955 and five years later it was upgraded to a Consulate General and later developed into a full fledged Embassy in 1971.

The Dhofar Rebellion was launched in the province of Dhofar against the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and United Kingdom from 1962 to 1975.

Viticulturalists Maynard Amerine & Harold Olmo proposed a descendency from a wild Vitis vinifera vine that was a step removed from white Muscat.

The Muscat or Yemen ass was developed in Arabia.

Service was also started to Rome, Paris, Muscat, Kano, and Stockholm.

During the adaptation of many vineyards to pisco production, the most widespread grape was used as raw material, namely the Muscat, with some vineyards preferring the Torontel and Pedro Jiménez varieties.

Nursullah Khan, Hyder's ambassador, had more success in Muscat, where a trading house was established in 1776.

On 24 June 1837, it was nominally annexed by Said bin Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

From 1836 until 1861, parts of Jubaland were claimed by the Sultanate of Muscat ( now in Oman ), when the new Sultanate of Zanzibar was split from Muscat and Oman and given control of its East African territories.

The name Liverpool was also the former name of the ship-of-the line HMS Imaum, which was taken into the Royal Navy in 1836 as a gift from His Highness the Imaum of Muscat to the British crown ; however the name Liverpool was not used in the Royal Navy for this ship.

Even though he is able to take a ferry from the city of Suez to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, he misses a key connection that would have taken him to Muscat.

By August 1996 Bassett had taken the helm at Crystal Palace and signed Muscat to the south London club for £ 35, 000.

They are divided by the Wadi Samail ( the largest wadi in the mountain zone ), a valley that forms the traditional route between Muscat and the interior.

The mean summer temperature in Muscat is, but the gharbi ( literally, western ), a strong wind that blows from the Rub al Khali, can raise temperatures from the towns on the Gulf of Oman by to.

On 26 February 1548 he recaptured Aden from the Portuguese, followed in 1552 by the capture of Muscat, which Portugal had occupied since 1507, and the strategically important island of Kish.

** Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.

He stayed in Bombay for fourteen months and then returned home by way of Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz and Persepolis.

From 1836 until 1861, parts of Jubaland were claimed by the Sultanate of Muscat ( now in Oman ), and were later incorporated into British East Africa.

In the mid-17th century it was captured by the Imam of Muscat, but was subsequently recaptured by Persians.

Fiji, who qualified for this edition, was forced to withdraw due to civil war and was replaced by Vanuatu, who impressed in the semifinal against Australia: the Socceroos, managed by Frank Farina, won 1-0 thanks only to a penalty kick by Kevin Muscat.

* Rutherglen Tokay and Muscat by U. S. wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr.

* Rutherglen Tokay and Muscat by U. S. wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The latter recaptured Muscat from the Portuguese in 1650 after a colonial presence on the northeastern coast of Oman dating to 1508.

** Arabs besiege Portuguese in Muscat.

Abroad, the Dutch took Portuguese Malacca ( Jan 1641 ) and the Sultan of Oman captured Muscat ( 1650 ).

After the Portuguese made several abortive attempts to seize control of Basra, the Safavid ruler Abbas I of Persia conquered the kingdom with the help of the English, and expelled the Portuguese from the rest of the Persian Gulf, with the exception of Muscat.

Although Dibba was offered to the Mandaeans they were wise enough to see that the Portuguese force there would be insufficient to guarantee their security and, while a few Mandaeans tested the waters by moving to Muscat, most returned to Basra in AD 1630.

Within a year or two the Portuguese were forced out of Dibba and held only Khasab and Muscat, which they finally lost in 1650.

In 1587 Faza was destroyed by the Portuguese as the local Sheikh had supported Mirale Bey, a notorious privateer who had earlier played a key role in ousting the Portuguese from Muscat.

There are several large cities on the Arabian Sea coast including Karachi, Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Aden, Muscat, Mumbai, Mangalore, Kochi, Keti Bandar, Salalah and Duqm.

In Oman, about 50 % of the population lives in Muscat and the Batinah coastal plain northwest of the capital ; about 200, 000 live in the Dhofar ( southern ) region ; and about 30, 000 live in the remote Musandam Peninsula on the Strait of Hormuz.

( missing data on Ormuz-from Socotra to Basra, including Muscat, Bahrain, islands in Strait of Hormuz, etc.

In Oman, Carrefour opened a store in 2001 on the outskirts of the city of Muscat.

Said bin Taimur ( 13 August 1910 – 19 October 1972 ) () was the sultan of Muscat and Oman ( the country later renamed to Oman ) from 10 February 1932 until his overthrow on 23 July 1970.

They were also the only A-League team to ever be broadcast on free-to-air television ( Network Ten broadcast this game with Melbourne Victory captain Kevin Muscat providing commentary ).

Qaboos acceded to the throne on 23 July 1970 after deposing his father in a palace coup with the aim of ending the country's isolation and using its oil revenue for modernization and development, moving to Muscat.

In 1921 Dun Karm was one of the founding members of the Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti and on the death of Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi in 1927, he was elected president of the Għaqda and later editor of the official organ, Il-Malti.

He was senior officer at Mauritius in 1821, with orders to suppress the slave trade, and concluded the Moresby Treaty with Seyyid Said, the imam of Muscat in September 1822 restricting the scope of local slave trading and conferring on English warships the right of searching and seizing local vessels.

* Joseph Muscat, Labour Party ( Party of European Socialists ) has officially resigned from the European Parliament on 25 September 2008, soon after the same parliament approved his last assignment, a report proposing new regulations for the EU ’ s financial services sector.

Shatti Al-Qurm is an upscale residential locality situated on the coast of Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman.

" muškat ruža porečki " ( English: Muscat Rose ) is produced in mid Istra, a peninsula on the north Adriatic coast in Croatia.

Muscat dessert wines ( moschato ) are produced on Samos, Rhodes, Patras and Cephalonia.

Dry Muscat table wine is produced on Lemnos.

For the recording of their new album, Cripps returned to the lineup replacing Muscat and recorded keyboards on the album.

It is more common to find residual sugar in Gewürztraminer and Pinot Gris, which reach a higher natural sugar content on ripeness, than in Riesling, Muscat or Sylvaner.

Following the loss of the election, Sant resigned as leader of the Labour Party on 10 March 2008, and as Leader of the Opposition on 5 June 2008 ; he was succeeded as PL leader by Joseph Muscat and as Leader of the Opposition by Charles Mangion.

Before 1940, the Indian rupee and the Maria Theresa Thaler ( known locally as the rial ) were the main currencies circulating in Muscat and Oman, as the state was then known, with rupees circulating on the coast and Thaler in the interior.

The Muttrah Souq is perhaps one of the oldest marketplaces in the Arab world because Muscat is the world's largest natural harbor and has seen immense trade in the age of sail, being strategically located on the way to India and China.

Muscat was elected as the new party leader on June 6, 2008.