The Omani Empire and Its Impact on the World | World History Project

The Omani Empire was not a typical empire. It was not something you could easily see on the map. It didn’t have an army or typical bureaucracy. In the corner of Arabia, on the Indian Ocean coast, the Omani rulers looked away from the land and outward to the sea, ultimately controlling many important sea lanes. This so-called empire was a loose web of ports connected through trade relations. Over time, it became a powerful economic, political, and cultural force that reshaped the Indian Ocean world, from Oman to Zanzibar and beyond.

[terrynewsome]

It is a sea empire like that of Carthage or Venice. Small territorial holdings with a strong enthuse on trade and influence.

[turkialbalushi]

The omanis kicked out the Portuguese, have a waaaay greater history than whats mentioned and dpans thousands of years, the girst sea port in history is in Oman, the oldest tribes in the world are in Oman, so many lost languages are only found in Oman etc etc.

[Pedrombsantos]

The Portuguese "Empire" worked pretty much the same way, have you noticed ?

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Title: Omani Empire
Thumbnail: Selim III "Ottoman Sultan" at Topkapi Palace

[shahmoneyshahmoney]

im a pakistani and took a dna test and got 3% omani in me thx omani empire came to asia that makes sense now where i got this omani 3% from now thx

[haatpraat]

The Omanis ran the centuries long East African Slave Trade. Millions of black African men, women and children were trafficked from the interior of Africa to Zanzibar and then transported into a life of barbaric slavery to the Gulf and wider Indian Ocean. By the time the British got to Zanzibar 50, 000 Black men, women and children were passing through Omani run slave markets every year. One incredibly gruesome fact about the Omani run East African Slave Trade was that the males were routinely castrated. The British implored the Omani Sultans of Zanzibar to stop the Slave Trade, but they did not. As a result the British decided to take over Zanzibar. In 1964 just after the British left Zanzibar, the local Black Africans fearful of a return to Omani Arab rule massacred the Omani Arab population of Zanzibar.

[mattgardiner]

I want to know more about their military during the 18th Century.

[DidiDidi-hgkg]

Leave Somalia out of this fan fiction please, hell even most of kenya except for few coastal cities

[dudi]

The picture of "syd Majid" is not him. Tippu Tip, was a governor of Kasongo Congo and not a slave trade. Slave traders were Africans themselves and the Europeans namely British, Frenchay Germans. Do research before presenting

[ImamOman]

British behind all that don't change the history

[maya]

Please revisit your history, your Omani Empire was at its height in Southern East African coast (modern day Mozambique, Tanzania Kenya) when Somalia already had an established Sultanate called Ajuran and Adal Sultanate. They did not have any control nor gain over the Somali territories in fact we were in war against the Portuguese Empire at this time of history. I kindly ask you educate yourself on this false narrative that you hold, thank you very much :)