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Dubai - the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, the administrative center of Dubai, the most important commercial and financial center of the United Arab Emirates and throughout the Middle East. Located on the Persian Gulf. Deep Sea Port in Dubai due to the low duty takes a leading place in the region to re-export of various goods, including gold. There is an international airport. In the period 1954-1971 he was the administrative center of the British protectorate of Trucial Oman. Dubai has held a variety of international conferences, festivals, exhibitions and so on. N., Is planned to hold the World Expo 2020.

Age remnants of an ancient mangrove swamp, found in the vicinity of Dubai during construction of sewer lines, estimated to be about 7,000 years. About 5000 years ago the shoreline, retreating into the country, took a modern look, while the area was covered with sand. Before the advent of Islam the people in this region worshiped bhajans (or Badzhar).

The land on which the town is located, from the VI century BC. e. subordinate to the Persian Achaemenid dynasty, in the III-VI centuries BC. e. It belonged to the Sassanids. In the VII century, Islam came here and the territory became part of the Arab Caliphate. In the VIII century, the principality of Dubai participated in the uprising against the governor of the caliph, so that Dubai's rulers were actually independent in the middle of the VIII-IX centuries. By the end of the IX century they were under the rule of the Abbasids. In the XIII invaded Hulaguid here. Until the eighteenth century fought for territory Portugal, Iran, Turkey, Oman, the Wahhabis. Venetian pearl merchant Gasperi Balbi, who visited these parts in 1580, describing the pearling, mentioned Dubai (Dibei). Since the XVIII local sailors, mainly engaged in the coasting trade, conflict with wins in competition with them, the East India Company, in connection with which the British dubbed the area "Pirate Coast". In 1820 the East India Company by military force directed here to fight with the pirates, made the signing of the t. N. General agreement, in which Oman was divided into 3 parts. Agreement in 1835, 1839, 1853 and 1892 led to the establishment of the British protectorate. Since 1853 the territory was part of t. N. Trucial Oman.

The first mention of the settlement on the site of Dubai are 1799. In the beginning of XIX Dubai's population was only about 1,200. It was a small village, sheltered by walls around him and Al Fahidi Fort (Al Fahidi) in the center of it. Until 1833 he was a member of Abu Dhabi, later, prior to independence in 1971, it belonged to the Trucial Oman Since 1833, Dubai is ruled by the Al Maktoum dynasty of emirs.

During the XIX century, two disasters have caused great damage to the welfare of the city: in 1841 in the city of a smallpox epidemic broke out, forcing residents to move to the east of Deira, and in 1894 a fire swept through Deira, destroying most homes. However, the geographical location of the city continued to attract traders from all over the region. Emir of Dubai wanting to attract foreign traders, lowered taxes, which attracted merchants from Sharjah - the main shopping center in the region at that time.

Deira on the banks of Dubai Creek estuary in the 1960s
Due to its proximity to the Port of Dubai and Iran attracted attention of foreign merchants, especially from Iran, many of whom eventually settled in Dubai, in the early XX century, he was one of the most important ports of the Persian Gulf. In 1910, the city population was about 10 thousand. Residents, the market, located on the beach in the Deira side, had about 350 stores. Dubai has flourished production and export of pearls vlot to the Great Depression of the 1930s, to overcome the consequences of which prevented the Japanese industry has developed in the cultivation of pearl farms.

For a long time, Dubai had to settle minor benefits from the proximity to the oil-rich Abu Dhabi, but in 1966 it had found its own field, although much less wealthy. Oil revenues have started to arrive in 1969. Growing oil prmyshlennost demanded the supply of labor, which was directed mainly from India and Pakistan, with the result that from 1968 to 1975 the city's population has quadrupled. Oil revenues have helped the development of the city at an early stage, but the oil reserves in Dubai are very limited and the level of production is low: revenues from oil account for only about 5% of total revenue base of the economy of Dubai began to make tourism, aviation, real estate, financial services.

Located on the shores of the Persian Gulf to the north-east of the capital - Abu Dhabi adjacent to Sharjah. Geographic coordinates: 25 ° 27 'north latitude, 55 ° 33' east longitude. The length of the city is 134 km, width - 35 km.

Climate Dubai - extremely hot (hot arid climate desert BWib Köppen classification). Dubai is one of the hottest cities in the world. The average temperature in August (the hottest month) 35, 1 ° C, while the average maximum is usually higher than +40 ° C, sometimes the temperature in the shade can reach up to almost 50 ° C. Winters are cooler, about the temperature they meet the summer in central Russia, with warm days and cool nights. The average January temperature is +19 ° C (the coldest month).

Precipitation in Dubai rare (annual rainfall of about 80 mm) and falls mainly in the second half of winter (February-March), from May to October rainfall is almost impossible.