The first settlements seem former to 4.000 before
JC. They were communities of fishermen installed on banks of the Gulf
where the emirate is located today. The emirate as such was born in
1830, populated by the tribe of Bani Yas and directed by the Maktoum
clan always in charge of the country. This population was on the one
hand Bedouins living in the desert, on the other hand fishermen whose
most gainful employment, the fishing of pearl-bearing oysters will quickly
make center of trade. In parallel, Dubai became a famous place
for the trade of gold. In the Sixties, the first oil barrels are extracted
from the basement of the emirate. 1971 see the withdrawal of the British
colonizer. Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Short-nap cloth-Al-Khaimah, Umm-Al-Qaiwain
gather within the United Arab Emirates in a confederal system offering
a broad autonomy to each one of its components.