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MUSCAT

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The independent Sultanate of Muscat and Oman covers an
area of some 82,000 square miles in the south-eastern corner of the
Arabian peninsula; and its half-million or more inhabitants arc pre­
dominantly Arab except in the twin ports of Muscat and Matrah
where much of the business community is Indian and Pakistani in
origin, and where there is also a large Negro population, descended
from the slaves imported from Africa.

Muscat Harbour and Fort Jalali from Fort Merani
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