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A 1973 postal stamp showing the city of Khor Fakkan. Khor Fakkan has a long history of human settlement. There is evidence of post holes from the wooden uprights of the traditional barasti huts known as areesh , similar to those found at Tell Abraq which dates from the 3rd to 1st millennium BC. [ 16 ]
On 10 July 1963, Sharjah opened its own post office and began to issue its stamps and postal stationery under the name of Sharjah & Dependencies (which included Kalba, Khor Fakkan, and Dibba). There were also unauthorized overprints using Hamriyah , a frequently secessionist coastal town but officially subject to Sharjah and which never gained ...
Zubarah is a coastal suburb to the North of Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). [1] It is the northernmost district of Khor Fakkan municipality. [ 2 ]
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The rest house (also known as the 'cloud lounge') is reached by a 5.6 km roadway cut out of the mountain and is located 580 metres above sea level. [1] The 30-metre diameter building offers 360 degree panoramic views of Khor Fakkan, [2] and houses a branch of the Sharjah Art Foundation's Fen Café and a multipurpose hall, as well as a children's play park.
Dibba Al-Hisn has been an important site of maritime trade and settlement since the pre-Islamic era.Although there is slight information, mainly from tombs, of settlement during the later second millennium and early first millennium BCE, contemporary with such sites as Shimal, Tell Abraq and Rumeilah, and of scattered occupation during the period of al-Dur and Mileiha, most mention of Dibba is ...
Access to the village of Nahwa is through the northernmost road into the Madha enclave south of Khor Fakkan which leads to New Madha. From New Madha, there is a paved but winding road (about 5 km (3 mi)) leading to Nahwa. Entering Nahwa, there is an Emirati police outpost some 80 metres (260 ft) after the boundary marker. The village itself is ...
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