Muscat - Muscat, Oman, Muscat Securities Market, Oman Air, Muscat Intmuscat, Oman, Muscat Securities Market, Oman Air, Muscat International Airport, Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos, Shati Al-Qurm Ernational Airport, Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos, Shati Al-Qurm (Paperback)

Chapters: Muscat, Oman, Muscat Securities Market, Oman Air, Muscat International Airport, Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos, Shati Al-Qurm, Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Al-Ghubra, British School - Muscat, Oman Children's Museum, Omani French Museum, Omani Aquarium and Marine Science and Fisheries Centre, Sultan's Armed Forces Museum, Oman Natural History Museum, Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre, Museum of Omani Heritage, Muscat Gate Museum, Bait Al Zubair, Bangladesh School Muscat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Muscat, Oman - Ptolemy's Map of Arabia identifies the territories of Cryptus Portus and Moscha Portus. Scholars are divided in opinion on which of the two related to the city of Muscat. Similarly, Arrianus references Omana and Moscha in Voyage of Nearchus. Interpretations of Arrianus' work by William Vincent and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville conclude that Omana was a reference to Oman, while Moscha referred to Muscat. Similarly, other scholars identify Pliny the Elder's reference to Amithoscuta to be Muscat. The origin of the word Muscat is disputed. Some authors claim that the word has Arabic origins from moscha, meaning an inflated hide or skin. Other authors claim that the name Muscat means anchorage or the place of "letting fall the anchor." Other derivations include muscat from Old Persian, meaning strong-scented, or Arabic meaning falling-place, or meaning hidden. Maas-gat in the old Persian means "fishing place" (Moscha Portus). Even Masandam means "massan (fishes)+ dam (net)" in the old Persian.Cryptus Portus is synonymous with Oman ("hidden land").But "Ov-man" (Omman) and the old sumerian name Magan (Maa-kan) means sea-people in Persian and Arabic. Evidence of communal activity in the area around Muscat dates back to the 6th mil...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=57053