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Oman
Oman , officially Sultanate of Oman, independent sultanate (2005 est. pop. 3,002,000), c.82,000 sq mi (212,380 sq km), SE Arabian peninsula, on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is bordered on the west by Yemen and Saudi Arabia and on the north by the United Arab Emirates, which separates the... Read more
Sayyid Said
Sayyid Said or Said ibn Sultan, 1791?-1856, ruler of Oman and Zanzibar. He became ruler of Oman in 1806, when he was about 15. After defeating opposition in Oman, with British help he determined to reassert Oman's traditional claims in E Africa. He eventually succeeded and in about 1840 shifted... Read more
Muscat
Muscat   Maskat, or Masqat , city (1993 pop. 533,774), capital of Oman, SE Arabia, on the Gulf of Oman. It is flanked by rugged mountains. Muscat, which has a fine harbor, was seized by the Portuguese Afonso de Albuquerque in 1508 and kept by Portugal until 1648. Persian princes held it u... Read more
Arabian Sea
Arabian Sea ancient Mare Erythraeum, northwest part of the Indian Ocean, lying between Arabia and India. The Gulf of Aden, extended by the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Oman, extended by the Persian Gulf, are its principal arms. The submarine Carlsberg ridge, SE of Socotra Island, is the sea's souther... Read more
Sharjah
Sharjah , sheikhdom (1995 pop. 400,339), c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), part of the federation of seven United Arab Emirates , SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The modernized town of Sharjah (1995 pop. 320,095), on the Persian Gulf, is the third largest town in the federation, a... Read more
Kerman
Kerman , city (1991 pop. 311,643), capital of Kerman prov., E central Iran. It is noted for making and exporting carpets. Cotton textiles and goats-wool shawls are also manufactured. Kerman was under the Seljuk Turks in the 11th and 12th cent., but remained virtually independent, conquering Oman and... Read more
Middle East
Middle East term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of SW Asia and NE Africa lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the Arab... Read more
object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the instructions. A group of objects ... Read more
Zanzibar
Zanzibar zăn´zĬbär, zănzĬbär´ or Stone Town, city (1994 est. pop. 160,000), capital of the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar and of Zanzibar West region, Tanzania, on the west coast of Zanzibar island, separated by a 22-mile (35-km) wide channe... Read more
Arabia
Arabia , peninsula (1991 est. pop. 35,000,000), c.1,000,000 sq mi (2,590,000 sq km), SW Asia. It is bordered on the W by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, on the S by the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, on the E by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, and on the N by Iraq and Jordan. Politicall... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "oman"

Oman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Oman , officially Sultanate of Oman, independent sultanate (2005 est. pop. 3,002,000), c...sq mi (212,380 sq km), SE Arabian peninsula, on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is bordered on the west by Yemen and Saudi...
Gulf of Oman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa GULF OF OMAN The northwest arm of the Arabian Sea, measuring...miles (560 km) in length. The Gulf of Oman forms the only entrance to the Persian Gulf...Ocean. It is bounded by Iran on the north, Oman on the south, and the United Arab Emirates...
Jabal al-Akhdar, Oman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa JABAL AL-AKHDAR, OMAN The highest and best-watered region in the western Hajar Mountains of Oman. About ninety-five miles southwest of Muscat...side of Jabal al-Akhdar faces the Gulf of Oman, and the main towns are alRustaq, al-Awabi...
Al Bu Saʿid Family and Tribe of Oman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa AL BU SA ʿ ID FAMILY AND TRIBE OF OMAN One of the principal tribes of Oman. A merchant from the tribe Ahmad ibn Sa ʿ...descendants became the present ruling family of Oman, also known as the Al Bu Sa ʿ id. Ahmad...
National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF OMAN AND THE ARAB GULF radical antigovernment...out attacks on the government in northern Oman paralleling those that had been launched...the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf. see also popular front...
Trucial Oman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Trucial Oman see United Arab Emirates .
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman , 1860-1946, British historian, b. India, educated at Oxford under William Stubbs. He was a foremost military historian...
Omanis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...PRONUNCIATION: oh-MAHN-eez LOCATION: Oman POPULATION: 1.5 million LANGUAGE: Arabic...INTRODUCTION The present-day land of Oman was home to a fairly advanced civilization...seventh centuries ad, Islam was brought to Oman by the Arabs. During the 1500s, the Portuguese...
Qaboos ibn Sa'id
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...s strategically important Sultanate of Oman, defeated a Communist-inspired insurgency...dynasty, the Al Bu Sa'id, rulers of Oman since 1744. Born on November 18, 1940, in Salalah, capital of Oman's southern province of Dhofar, he was...
Anglo–Omani Treaties
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...OMANI TREATIES Agreements concluded by Oman's rulers and British India's local...involvement in Omani affairs and culminated in Oman becoming a virtual British protectorate. British interest in Oman and the Persian/Arabian Gulf was based...

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Oman
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Oman (formerly known as Muscat and Oman ) A country situated on the eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula. Physical Oman has a coast on the Arabian Sea, and inland it borders on Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mountains rise steeply from a narrow...
Oman, John Wood
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Oman, John Wood (1860–1939), Presbyterian theologian. From 1907 to 1935 he taught in Cambridge. Holding the uniqueness...
Said ibn Sultan Sayyid
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Said ibn Sultan Sayyid (1791–1856) Ruler of Oman and Zanzibar (1806–56). In 1806 he became ruler (Sayyid) of OMAN , with his capital at Muscat on the Persian Gulf. In 1822, assisted by the British, he sent an expedition...
Proclamation on Immigration Quotas (28 April 1938)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Liechtenstein (100) Lithuania (386) Luxemburg (100) Monaco (100) Morocco (French and Spanish zones and Tangier; 100) Muscat (Oman; 100) Nauru (British mandate; 100) Nepal (100) Netherlands (3,153) New Guinea, Territory of (including appertaining...
Arab Nations, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...American trade continued but at a very low level compared to other world areas. For example, one American ship called at Muscat in Oman between 1855 and 1913. Not surprisingly, that consulate was closed two years later, in 1915. Consulates existed in numerous...
Callinicos of Heliopolis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...See also George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science , I (Baltimore, 1927), 494 – 495; and Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages , II (New York, 1924), 46 – 47. Karl H. Dannenfeldt
Allied Coalition
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates...
Yemen, Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Yemen, Republic of A country in the south of the peninsula of Arabia, bordering on Saudi Arabia and Oman on the north. Physical Behind the western, Red Sea, coast are high mountains. The lower-lying eastern part has a coast on...
United Arab Emirates
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...UAE) A federation of seven sheikhdoms (emirates) occupying the southern (Arabian) coast of the Gulf between Qatar and Oman, together with its offshore islands. Physical Abu Dhabi in the west is the largest emirate and also the richest in oil and...
Arab League
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1958), Tunisia (1958), Kuwait (1961), Algeria (1962), South Yemen (1967), Qatar (1971), Bahrain (1971), Oman (1971), the United Arab Emirates (1971), Mauritania (1973), Somalia (1974), the PLO (1976), Djibouti (1977...

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Oman - Part 1 - The Prospects & Geology.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends; 2/1/2010; 700+ words ; The sultanate of Oman has seen its oil and condensate production...in the country, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), is producing about 606,000...In addition, PDO accounts for most of Oman's output of natural gas. PDO has been...
Oman Telecommunications Report Q3 2009: there were 32,447 broadband subscribers in Oman at the end of 2008.
M2 Presswire; 1/31/2010; 700+ words ; ...January 2010-Companies and Markets: Oman Telecommunications Report Q3 2009: there were 32,447 broadband subscribers in Oman at the end of 2008(C)1994-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:31012010 Oman Telecommunications Report Q3 2009 : New...
OMAN: Construction contract award for planned $780,000,000 sewage treatment plant modernization project, BAHWAN CONTRACTING CO. (BCC) [Oman] - Order #: 122403.
Newspaper article from: WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World; 12/1/2003; 700+ words ; PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local OMAN WASTEWATER SERVICES CO. (OWSC) is currently...plant covering the Muscat Governorate in Oman. In so doing, OWSC recently awarded the...contract to BAHWAN CONTRACTING CO. (BCC) of Oman. According to the terms of the award...
Oman reaps fruits of go-slow plan.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 4/24/2009; 700+ words ; Dubai: Oman is taking things slowly when it comes to...housing at a blistering pace in recent years, Oman has just begun to open up to foreign buyers...skyscrapers and often crass commercialism. Oman has embarked on a gentle modernisation programme...
Oman's new tax law removes ambiguity.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 1/11/2010; 700+ words ; ...tax law being implemented this year in Oman has created a level playing field and removed...proposed last year by the Government of Oman has brought in what we all know u a level...the Omani companies," tax analyst in Oman, P. Chandrasekhr, a Group General Manager...
OMAN: Development plans for proposed $1,100,000,000 improved oil recovery (IOR) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects including invitation to bid on related front end engineering and design (FEED) package that is tentatively scheduled to be issued some time during the second half of the year 2002, PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN (PDO) [Oman] - Order #: 063202.
Newspaper article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East; 6/1/2002; 700+ words ; ...Steve Ollerarnshaw, PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN (PDO) Managing Director, his company...venture company owned by the government of Oman (60%), ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL (34...about 4500 and is acknowledged to be one of Oman's a major exploration and production...
Oman alive: governments across the MENA region are looking to broaden their economic bases while times are good and liquidity remains high from hydrocarbon sales. Recent projects in Oman, and further plans to extend ports, infrastructure and the telecommunications network, reflect the broader regional trend.(MENA structured trade--Oman country briefing)
Magazine article from: Trade Finance; 11/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...improve the employability of the local labour force. Oman is proving a fertile market for groundbreaking deals. Aromatics Oman In September, HSBC acted as financial adviser on the Aromatics Oman project being developed by Oman Oil Company (OOC...
oman oil and sohar aluminium sign 8.7 million riyal diesel fuel agreement
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 11/10/2007; 700+ words ; Oman Oil Marketing Company (OOMCO), one of the...agreement was signed by Eng. Omar Ahmed Qatan, Oman Oil Marketing Company CEO and Tony Kinsman...beginning of a thriving partnership between Oman Oil Marketing Company and Sohar Aluminium...
Oman Implements Historic Change To Pricing Of Crude Oil
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 11/19/2006; 700+ words ; The Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) and...Exchange Limited (DME) today announced that Oman will adopt forward pricing of its crude...the daily settlement price of the DME's Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract, due to start...
OMAN - The Geology.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Oil Market Trends; 1/31/2000; 700+ words ; With an area of 300,000 sq km, Oman lies at the south-eastern end of the...minerals. The north-east is occupied by the Oman mountains, a complex of igneous and metamorphic...Empty Quarter) Basin. For hydrocarbons, Oman's geology is different from that of Saudi...