Sur (Oman)
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Sur (Arabic صور, DMG Sur ) is a town about 30 kilometers west of the easternmost point of the Sultanate of Oman at Ras al - Jinz. It is located on the Gulf of Oman 150 km southeast of the provincial capital Muscat. According to the 2003 census, the district had a population of 66 785 Sur. Sur is the capital of the province Dschanub ash Sharqiyah and also the capital of the wilaya Sur.
The city was an important commercial center for trade with East Africa in the 6th century. After Sur in the 16th century came under the rule of the Portuguese, it experienced after the liberation by Nasir ibn Murshid ( 1624-1649 ) a new lease as a center for trade with India and East Africa. The decline of the city began when Britain in the middle of the 19th century continued the prohibition of the slave trade. When, after the city was destroyed by the Wahhabis (1865 ) of the Suez Canal was opened also (1869 ), Sur finally lost its importance for trade with India.
The long tradition as a seafaring town of Sur is still maintained. The city is a center of traditional construction of dhows, so the ships in which the trading voyages to Africa and India have been made until the 19th century.
In the village the university Sur University College and the University of Applied Sciences a comparable Sur College of Applied Sciences is located. 20 km north of Sur is the ruined city Qalhat, or Galhat that. An important role in the Kingdom of Ormus, a vassal state, which was initially later depending on the Persian Empire by the Portuguese The UNESCO put this place under special protection.
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Mosque
Panorama View of Sur from the land side
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Lighthouse Al Ayjah