Editing History of Oman (section)

==Persian period==
The northern half of Oman (beside modern-day Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, plus Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan) presumably was part of the [[Maka (satrapy)|Maka]]<ref>Dan Potts, The Booty of Magan, ''Oriens anticuus'' 25, 1986, 271-85</ref> [[satrapy]] of the Persian [[Achaemenid Empire]]. By the time of the [[conquests of Alexander the Great]], the satrapy may have existed in some form and Alexander is said to have stayed in [[Purush]], its capital, perhaps near [[Bam, Iran|Bam]], in [[Kerman]] province. From the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE, waves of Semitic speaking peoples migrated from central and western Arabia to the east. The most important of these tribes are known as [[Azd]]. On the coast [[Parthian Empire|Parthian]] and [[Sassanian Empire|Sassanian]] colonies were maintained. From c. 100 BCE to c. 300 CE Semitic speakers appear in central Oman at [[Samad al-Shan]] and the so-called [[Pre-islamic recent period]], abbreviated PIR, in what has become the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref>[[Paul Alan Yule|Paul Yule]], ''Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia'', Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-447-10127-1}}</ref> These waves continue, in the 19th century bringing [[Bedouin]] ruling families who finally ruled the Persian Gulf states. 
[[File:The Sasanian Empire at its apex under Khosrow II.svg|thumb|The Sasanian Empire at its greatest extent c. 620, under [[Khosrow II]]]]
The Kingdom of Oman was subdued by the [[Sasanian Empire]]'s forces under [[Vahrez]] during the [[Aksumite–Persian wars]]. The 4,000-strong Sasanian garrison was headquartered at Jamsetjerd/Jamshedgird (modern Jebel Gharabeh, also known as Felej al-Sook).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miles |first1=Samuel Barrett |title=The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf |url=https://archive.org/details/countriestribeso01mileuoft |date=1919 |publisher=Harrison and sons |pages=[https://archive.org/details/countriestribeso01mileuoft/page/26 26]–27 |language=en}}</ref>