A brief history of Dubai’s economy up to 1979
Dubai’s close proximity to India made it an important trading location and it was already known in Europe from the sixteenth century for its pearling industry, but it was in the nineteenth century when the emir lowered trade taxes to lure foreign traders from neighbouring states that Dubai really began to grow in prominence. The [...]
First records of Dubai
The earliest mention of Dubai dates back to 1095 and the “Book of Geography” by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri the Andalusian-Arab geographer. In 1580 the Venetian pearl merchant Gaspero Balbi visited the area and wrote of Dubai’s pearling industry. Documented records of the town of Dubai exist only after 1799. Going back to the 1820s, there [...]
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