Dubai - a city of dealers and people of the most different cultures, second-large emirat in the United Arab Emirates. Today we will tell about it.

Dubai, the United Arab Emirates The area emirata Dubai makes 3 885 sq.km. - about 5 % from a total area of the United Arab Emirates. But at the small sizes Dubai - the main business centre of the Near East, one of the largest world trade centres and tourism at coast, heart of a commercial life of the state. The population emirata strongly grows last years and for today has already exceeded one million person.

From ancient times Dubai was a place where there were beduiny-nomads, city dealers, pearl divers, fishers. In the beginning of XIX century Dubai represented the small settlement surrounded with walls which were in area the Drill Dubai (Bur Dubai) is close to the Bay in which centre fort Fahidi (Fahidi) settled down. The population number of only 1200 persons belonged to a tribe of Beni of the Language

In 1833 to Dubai from Abu-Dhabi representatives of other branch of this tribe, headed by family Maktuma have moved. It was turning point in destiny Dubai as these poselentsy have soon begun building of a small city - shopping centre. On a boundary of century it was famous for the greatest market at coast with 350 shops which were on party Dejra (Deira). To read completely »

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