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Tapes of many news agencies, and also sites of travel agencies speak today us about opening resort complex Atlantis, the Palm the first resort on sensational man-made island to Palm tree Dzhumejra (The Palm Jumeirah) at coast United Arab Emirates. We will not break tradition, but we will tell about the island Palm tree Dzhumejra in more details.

Now «Palm tree Dzhumejra» - the most grandiose and sensational project in the world. "Palm tree" represents the artificial island located at coast of Arab Emirates. It has been created by company Nakheel belonging to the government of Dubai. «Palm tree Dzhumejra» is only one of three so-called «Palm islands» at coast of Dubai which increase a coastal line in total by 520 km.

The island has received such name thanks to the form. It on outlines reminds a palm tree. This unusual island presses deep into Persian gulf on 6,5 km, and its size is so great, that he can be seen from the companion. The length and width of "Palm tree" make approximately on 5 km, and the total area is comparable with a total area of eight hundred football grounds. Quite often because of uniqueness of this island, «Palm tree Dzhumejra» by right name the eighth miracle of light. To read completely »

A little millions years ago the territory of the present Emirates reminded the East African savanna: on green plains the deep rivers where there lived crocodiles and hippopotamuses flew, the climate was soft. Persian gulf at that time was long narrow and are small estuary, the majority of present islands did not exist, mountains were more low, and there where the desert is now stretched, water lapped. Arabian peninsula – the part which has separated 120-150 million years ago of the general with Africa of continent.

Numerous archeological finds say that the person has appeared in these edges approximately in 5 millenium BC, i.e. In the late Stone Age. Scientists consider, that it were tribes of cattlemen from Northern Arabia and Syrian desert. In the summer they otkochevyvali deep into deserts where palm trees grew in oases and other fruit-trees, were proved at coast where fished in the winter and collected remained at outflow of molluscs.

In 4500-4000 BC seamen and merchants from Mesopotamia, a pottery bringing here which were not able to do local tribes became frequent visitors of these places. As historians, ancestors emirattsev, probably consider, exchanged them for pearls. To read completely »

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.

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 »