Salalah

Salalah, is the capital and biggest metropolis of the southern Omani governorate of Dhofar. Its populace in 2009 changed into approximately 197,169. Salalah is the second-biggest metropolis inside the Sultanate of Oman, and the largest town inside the Dhofar Province. Salalah is the birthplace of the cutting-edge sultan, Qaboos bin Said. Salalah draws many humans from other parts of Oman and the Persian Gulf place throughout the monsoon/khareef season, which spans from July to September. The climate of the place and the monsoon allows the city to develop some veggies and end result like coconut and bananas.

There are many gardens in the town where these veggies and culmination develop. Salalah changed into the traditional capital of Dhofar, which reached the height of prosperity inside the thirteenth century way to the incense trade. Later it decayed, and inside the nineteenth century it turned into absorbed by way of the Sultanate of Muscat. Between 1932 and 1970, Salalah changed into the capital of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman beneath Said bin Taimur. After the latter's death, his son Qaboos determined to move the capital of Oman to Muscat.