Kalba

Kalba (Arabic كلباء, DMG Kalba ʾ, occasionally Chelbah or similar) is a coastal settlement in the east of the United Arab Emirates. It is an exclave of the emirate of Sharjah in the Gulf of Oman and was once an independent (eighth ) emirate, which had dominated the exclave of Khor Fakkan.

Exclave Kalba

The exclave Kalba covers about 100 km ² and 35,000 inhabitants. On the land side Kalba is surrounded by the emirate of Fujairah in the north, a jointly administrated by Fujairah and Sharjah area in the west, an exclave Fudschairas in the southwest, and the Sultanate of Oman in the south. The only road to Sharjah, the Sharjah - Kalba - E 102 Road leads through which the Emirate of Ras al -Khaimah belonging Wadi al -Qur in the Hajar Mountains.

Emirate of Kalba

Probably already created 2,500 years ago fishing village Kalba was like the more northerly Khor Fakkan 1507-1623 and 1737-1743 Portuguese occupied Persian. The Portuguese built a fort in Kalba, built on the remains of the Arabs, the left today are Al- Hisn Fort After the expulsion of the Persians was the end of the 18th century, the entire region of Sharjah and Ras al -Khaimah under the rule of the Huwala strain belonging to the clan of Qawasimi or the dynasty of al - Qasimi, which in turn was forced in 1820 under British protectorate treaty. After 1869, the Qasimi - power had fallen to the Emirates Sharjah and Ras al -Khaimah and Fujairah in the ruling al- Scharqi had shaken off the supremacy of the Qasimi, began in 1871, the Qasimi Prince Majid ibn Sultan al - Qasimi ( 1871-1900 ), to provide for the innerdynastischen fights its own power base in Kalba. Formal Kalba looked but initially continued as part Schardschas, also under successor Hamad ibn Majid Majid al - Qasimi ( 1900-1903 ). After another innerdynastischen clashes but declined in 1903 Kalba ( with Khor Fakkan ) and Dibba Sharjah from.

From the mid- 1920s to the early 1930s, the Qasimi in Kalba suffered from repeated attacks mainly the Sharqiyyin from Fujairah. Any troops Postings from Sharjah were blocked by that country access to Sharjah, the Wadi al -Qur, Ra's al -Khaimah was controlled. Among the local rulers Sayyid ibn Hamad al - Qasimi (1903-1937) and Hamad ibn Sayyid al - Qasimi (1937-1951) reached Kalba by the British, however, on December 8, 1936, the recognition as an independent emirate of the Contracting States. In return, the Emir graduated from Kalba 1937 oil concession agreements with the British Iraq Petroleum Company and negotiations on the construction of a runway for the Royal Air Force were taken. According to Hamad's death Kalba fell in May 1951 to the Emir Saqr ibn Sultan al - Qasimi of Sharjah and in 1952 re-integrated in Sharjah.

Khor Kalba

Unlike the port cities of Fujairah and Kalba Khor Fakkan is developed so far hardly economically or touristy, but has a modern hospital and a football club (Al -Ittihad Kalba ). The area north of the city of Kalba is still used predominantly agricultural. South of the city of Khor Kalba mangrove swamp covers ( Khawr Kalba ), which is a bird sanctuary.

Swell

• Detlef Müller- Mahn: United Arab Emirates - state with prosperity gap. In: Fred Scholz ( Ed. ): The small Gulf states - Perthes Country Profiles, pp. 209ff. Klett-Perthes, Gotha and Stuttgart 1999
• Lothar Rathmann: History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present, Volume 3 ( The Arab liberation movement in the fight against the imperialist colonial rule, from 1917 to 1945 ), page 243f. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974
• Muhammad Morsi Abd Allāh: The United Arab Emirates - A Modern History, pp. 307-315. Taylor & Francis, London 1978
• Worldstatesmen.org: United Arab Emirates, Kalba