Sohar

Suhar is the capital and largest city of the Al Batinah North Governorate in Oman. An historic capital of the country that when served as an vital Islamic port city, Suhar has additionally been credited as the mythical birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor. According to the 2010 census, Suhar's populace changed into a 140,006, making it Oman's 5th most-populated settlement.

As the biggest metropolis inside the vicinity, it has been argued that Suhar is identified with the historical city called Omanah mentioned by using Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. This agreement is assumed to have given Oman its call. According to Al-Tabari, as narrated via Timothy Power, an archaeologist and assistant-professor primarily based in Abu Dhabi who helped to observe the Buraimi Oasis Landscape Archaeology Project, in 893 or 894 CE, at some stage in the Abbasid era, there was a dispute about who ought to rule Oman among local factions. A faction that approached the Abbasids becomes the Bani Sama, who were based totally in Al-Buraimi or Tawam, before shifting to Sohar.