Oman is a sultanate that occupies the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. A significant part of this country, which is larger than Great Britain, is occupied by desert and semi-desert areas. Suffice it to say that there are no rivers in Oman at all, and it rains only a few days a year. However, this Arab state, ruled by a sultan, has been attracting more and more travelers in recent years.
Opened to tourists only in 1987, the Sultanate of Oman has a very rich and ancient history: at one time it was successively part of the Arab Caliphate, Persia, the Portuguese and British colonial empires. In the XVIII century. The Omanis were able to expel all foreign invaders from their territory and created a powerful pirate empire that covered the shores of modern Iran, the Arabian Peninsula and Africa from Somalia in the north to Mozambique in the south, inclusive.
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