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After the bridge, turn left onto Al Fateh Highway and proceed to the third traffic light. Turn left onto Awal Avenue. At the first traffic light, turn left then take the second right. Continue straight on Rd and the Residence Inn will be on your right. Fee for each additional page of outgoing fax.
Your Stay. Looking for Vacation Packages? Select date. The Safavids, sidelining Manama, designated the nearby town of Bilad Al Qadeem as the provincial capital. The position of Shaikh al-Islam lay under the jurisdiction of the central Safavid government and as such, candidates were carefully vetted by the Isfahan courts. During the Safavid era, the islands continued to be a centre for Twelver Shi'ism scholarship, producing clerics for use in mainland Persia.
The Portuguese traveler Pedro Teixeira commented on the extensive cultivation of crops like barley and wheat. The opening of Persian markets to Bahraini exports, especially pearls , boosted the islands' export economy. The yearly income of exported Bahraini pearls was , ducats , collected by around 2, pearling dhows.
Persian control over the Persian Gulf waned during the later half of the 18th century. At this time, Bahrain archipelago was a dependency of the emirate of Bushehr , itself a part of Persia. Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa later called Ahmed al-Fateh, lit. Political instability in the 19th century had disastrous effects on Manama's economy; Invasions by the Omanis in and by the Wahhabis in —11, in addition to a civil war in between Bahrain's co-rulers saw the town being a major battleground.
The instability paralysed commercial trade in Manama; the town's port was closed, most merchants fled abroad to Kuwait and the Persian coast until hostilities ceased. The Pax Britannica of the 19th century resulted in British consolidation of trade routes, particularly those close to the British Raj. In response to piracy in the Persian Gulf region, the British deployed warships and forced much of the Persian Gulf States at the time including Bahrain to sign the General Maritime Treaty of , which prohibited piracy and slavery.
With the ascension of Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa as the Hakim of Bahrain in , Manama became the centre of British activity in the Persian Gulf, though its interests were initially strictly commercial. Following the outbreak of World War I in , the British Raj used Manama as a military base of operations during the Mesopotamian campaign.
In , Bahrain was officially integrated into the British empire as an overseas imperial territory following the Bahrain order-in-council decree, issued in The British pressured a series of administrative reforms in Bahrain during the s a move met with opposition from tribal leaders , during which the aging Hakim Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa was forced to abdicate in favour of his reform-minded son Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa.
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A municipal government was established in Manama in , the Customs office was reorganised in and placed under the supervision of an English businessman, the pearling industry was later reformed in Earnings from the customs office would be kept in the newly created state treasury. Civil courts were established for the first time in , followed by the establishment of the Department of Land Registration in He later organised the State Police and was in charge of the Finance and Land departments of the government.
In , the country's pearling economy collapsed due to the introduction of Japanese cultured pearls in the world market. It is estimated that between and , pearling entrepreneurs lost more than two-thirds of their income. Further aggravated by the Great Depression , many leading Bahraini businessmen, shopkeepers, and pearl-divers fell into debt. The security of oil supplies in the Middle East was a priority of the British, especially in the run-up to the Second World War.
In , following the end of the war and subsequent Indian independence, the British residency of the Persian Gulf moved to Manama from Bushire. Following the rise of Arab nationalism across the Middle East and sparked by the Suez Crisis in , anti-British unrest broke out in Manama, organised by the National Union Committee. Though the NUC advocated peaceful demonstrations, buildings and enterprises belonging to Europeans the British in particular as well as the main Catholic church in the city and petrol stations, were targeted and set ablaze.
Another anti-British uprising erupted in March , though predominately led by students aspiring for independence rather than by Arab nationalists. Post-independence Manama was characterised by the rapid urbanisation of the city and the swallowing-up of neighboring villages and hamlets into a single urbanised area, incorporating new neighbourhoods such as Adliya and Salmaniya. The construction boom attracted large numbers of foreigners from the Indian subcontinent and by , foreigners outnumbered Bahrainis two-to-one.
Financial institutions in the district numbered by The scarcity of land suitable for construction led to land reclamation. The charter led to the first parliamentary and municipal elections in decades. The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry published a page report on the events of Historically, Manama has been restricted to what is now known as the Manama Souq and the Manama Fort now the Ministry of Interior to its south.
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However the city has now grown to include a number of newer suburban developments as well as older neighboring villages that have been engulfed by the growth of the city. The districts that make up Manama today include:. Manama is part of the Capital Governorate , one of five Governorates of Bahrain. Until it was part of the municipality of Al-Manamah.
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Councils exist within the governorates; eight constituencies are voted upon within Capital Governorate in Manama is the focal point of the Bahraini economy. While petroleum has decreased in importance in recent years due to depleting reserves and growth in other industries, it is still the mainstay of the economy. Heavy industry e. Several multinationals have facilities and offices in and around Manama.
Manama is a financial hub for the Persian Gulf region and a center of Islamic banking. There is also a large retail sector in the shopping malls around Seef , while the center of Manama is dominated by small workshops and traders. Manama's economy in the early 20th century relied heavily on pearling ; in , the pearling industry was estimated to include boats providing employment for up to 18, people.
Shipbuilding also employed several hundred in both Manama and Muharraq. Custom duties and tariffs served as the prime source of revenue for the government. With the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of the pearling industry and the discovery of oil in , the country's economy began to shift towards oil.
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Historically, the ports at Manama were of poor reputation. The British described the ports importing systems as being "very bad — goods were exposed to the weather and there were long delays in delivery", in Indians began maintaining the ports and new resources were built on site, improving the situation.
As of , Manama was one of the main exporters of Bahrain pearls , attracting steamships from India.