Dibba
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, Oman.|260x260px Dibbā ( ) is a coastal area at the northern tip of the eastern Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Oman.
, Oman.|260x260px]] Dibbā ( ) is a coastal area at the northern tip of the eastern Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Oman. During the time of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tadid (CE 870–892), a great battle was fought at Dibba during the conquest of Oman by the Abbasid governor of Iraq and Bahrain, Muhammad ibn Nur. Thereafter references to Dibba in historical literature are scarce until we come to the Portuguese who built a fortress there. Dibba (Debe) appears in the list of southeast Arabian placenames preserved by the Venetian jeweler Gasparo Balbi in CE 1580 and depictions of its Portuguese fort can be found in several sources, such as Armando Cortesão's Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica.
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