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Dubai

Dubai orDubayy (in Arabic: ) in English refers to either

one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates on the ArabianPeninsula, or

that emirate's main city, sometimes called "Dubai City" to distinguish it from theemirate.

The rulerof Dubai was the late H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, whowas also the Vice-President of the federation of the United Arab Emirates. The newRuler who is also the Vice-President and the Prime Minister of the UAE is H.H. SheikhMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who was earlier the crown prince of Dubai is oneof the Sheikh's younger brothers.

Dubai is the second largest emirate in the federation afterAbu Dhabi. The emirate islocated on the Persian Gulf, southwest ofSharjah and northeast of Abu Dhabi, andreaches into the interior. The town ofHatta is an exclave of the emirate of Dubai and

borders Al Wajajah, Oman.

Dubai is different from other members of the UAE because income from oil is only 6%of its gross domestic product. Most of the emirate's income is from the Jebel Ali FreeZone (JAFZ)[1] and now, even more from tourism.

History

There are records of the town of Dubai from 1799. Earlier in the 18th century, the AlAbu Falasa line of Bani Yas clan established itself in Dubai. The city was a dependentofAbu Dhabi until 1833.

On 8 January1820, the sheikh of Dubai was one of the people who signed the Britishsponsored "General Treaty of Peace" (the General Maritime Treaty).

In 1833, the Al Maktoum dynasty of the Bani Yas tribe left Abu Dhabi and took overDubai "without resistance". From that point on, Dubai, a newly independent emirate,was always struggling with the emirate of Abu Dhabi. An attempt by the Qawasim

pirates to take over Dubai was stopped. In 1835, Dubai and the rest of the Trucial Statessigned a maritime truce with Britain and a "Perpetual Maritime Truce" about twentyyears later. Dubai came under the protection of the United Kingdom (keeping out theOttoman Turks) by the Exclusive Agreement of1892. Like four of its neighbours, AbuDhabi, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Qaiwain, its being on the way to Indiamade it an important place.

In March 1892, the Trucial States (orTrucial Oman) were created.

The town of Dubai was an importantport of call for foreign tradesmen (chiefly Indians),

who settled in the town. Until the 1930s, the town was known for itspearls.

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After the Gulf Rupee lost value in 1966, Dubai joined the newly independent state ofQatarto set up a new monetary unit, the Qatar/Dubai riyal. Oil was discovered 120kilometres off the coast of Dubai, after which the town granted oil concessions.

On 2 December 1971 Dubai formed the United Arab Emirates, together with Abu Dhabi

and five other emirates. This was done after former protector Britain left the PersianGulfin 1971. In 1973, Dubai joined the other emirates to adopt a single, uniformcurrency: the UAE dirham.

Modern Dubai

Oil supply in Dubai are less than 1/20 that of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, and oil moneyis now only a small part of the city's total money. Dubai and its twin across the Dubaicreek, Deira (independent at that time), became important ports of call for Westernmanufacturers. Most of the new city's banking and financial centers were in this area.Dubai kept its importance as a trade route through the 1970s and 1980s. The city of

Dubai has a free trade in gold and till the 1990s was the center of a "brisksmugglingtrade" of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted (read the novel Dubai byRobin Moore).

Today, Dubai is an important place for tourists and port (Jebel Ali, built in the 1970s,has the biggest man-made harbour in the world), but also increasingly becoming acenter for service industries such as IT and finance, with the new Dubai InternationalFinancial Centre (DIFC). Transport links are helped by its rapidly-expanding EmiratesAirline, made by the government in 1985 and still state-owned. The airline is based atDubai International Airport and carries over 12 million passengers every year.

The government has set up industry-specific free zones throughout the city. DubaiInternet City, now combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (DubaiTechnology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclavewhose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle, Microsoft, andIBM, and media organisations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters, ARY and AP. DubaiKnowledge Village (KV) is an education and training hub is also set up to complementthe Free Zones other two clusters, Dubai Internet City and Dubai Media City, by

providing the facilities to train the clusters' future knowledge workers.

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