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    The Dhofar Governorate (Arabic: مُحَافَظَة ظُفَّار, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Ẓuffār) is the largest of the 11 governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms...
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    The Dhofar War (also known by other names) took place from 1963 to 1976 in the province of Dhofar against the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The war began...
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    The Dhofar Mountains (Arabic: جِبَال ظُفَار, romanized: Jibāl Ẓufār) are a mountain range in the southeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula. In a broad...
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  • Dhofar Sports, Cultural and Social Club (Arabic: نادي ظفار الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي is an Omani sports club based in Salalah, Oman. The club currently...
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  • Dhofar (Arabic: ظُفَار, romanized: Ẓufār) is a governorate of the Sultanate of Oman. Dhofar or Zufar may also refer to: Dhofar Rebellion, or the Omani...
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  • The Dhofar shrew (Crocidura dhofarensis) is a white-toothed shrew found only in the Dhofar region of Oman and Yemen. Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.;...
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    The Dhofar toad or Oman toad (Duttaphrynus dhufarensis) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula and is found...
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    buildings covered the country from the north of Musandam to the south of Dhofar, making Oman a great power in the Persian Gulf. During the later al Busaidi...
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    Oman (section Dhofar War)
    inscriptions from Sha'r Awtar's reign (210-230 CE). At Aybut Al Auwal, in the Dhofar Governorate of Oman, a site was discovered in 2011 containing more than...
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  • The Province-class fast attack craft, also known as the Dhofar class, is a British-built series of missile-armed fast attack craft for the Royal Navy of...
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  • The Dhofar pipistrelle (Pipistrellus dhofarensis) is a species of vesper bat in the genus Pipistrellus. It is found in Southern Arabia, including Oman...
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    Dhofar Liberation Front (DLF) (Arabic: جبهة تحرير ظفار) was a communist front that was established to create a separatist state in Dhofar, the southern...
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    Salalah (category Populated places in the Dhofar Governorate)
    romanized: Ṣalālah) is the capital and largest city of the southern Omani governorate of Dhofar. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 331,949. Salalah is the third-largest...
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    Development (Oman and Dhofar) Ltd, an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, carried out a camel-borne survey of Dhofar province. Like Thesiger...
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    Saudi Arabia and Sudan for the southeastern monsoon. The monsoon affects Dhofar and Al Mahrah Governorates from about June to early September. During these...
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    finally the barren coastline south to the Dhofar region in the south. Except for the foggy and fertile Dhofar, all of the coast and the lowlands around...
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    until its independence in early 1964. In 1964, a separatist revolt began in Dhofar province. Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former...
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    Tahrir Dhofar, DLF) which was based in Dhofar, the southern province of Oman. It was founded in 1962 by the Dhofar Benevolent Society (DBS), the Dhofar Soldiers’...
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    Batinah South Al Buraimi Al Wusta Ash Sharqiyah North Ash Sharqiyah South Dhofar Muscat Musandam Within the governorates, Oman is sub-divided into 61 provinces...
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    Iraqi–Kurdish conflict First Iraqi–Kurdish War Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Dhofar Rebellion North Yemen civil war Feb. 1963 Iraqi coup Mar. 1963 Syrian coup...
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    around high ground near Sarfait, was the longest running conflict of the Dhofar Rebellion. On 17 April 1972, a battalion of the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces...
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    Hemidactylus lemurinus, also known as the Dhofar leaf-toed gecko or Oman ghost leaf-toed gecko, is a species of gecko. It is native to southern Oman and...
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    Saudi Arabia), according to an author The southwest monsoon coastline of Dhofar and Eastern Yemen (Mahra). Arabia has few lakes or permanent rivers. Most...
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  • officially created in 1976. Currently, the most successful team in the league is Dhofar with 12 titles to their name. In 2010, during the annual draw for the Sultan...
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  • bin Nufl (?-July 7, 2013), was a key insurgent leadership figure of the Dhofar Liberation Front (DLF) which was the main rebel force in Southern Oman in...
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    Job. It is located in the hills overlooking the city of Salalah in Oman's Dhofar region. For other such places in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, see...
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    inland to 120 kilometres (75 mi) in the Jiddat al Harasisi plateau and the Dhofar Mountains. From here it continues as a very narrow strip (only 5 kilometres...
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    Said bin Taimur (category People from Dhofar Governorate)
    united, Said left the capital of Muscat and resided in a coastal town in Dhofar. Muscat and Oman became fully sovereign and independent states in 1951 with...
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  • Scarus zufar, also known as Dhofar parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is found along the central...
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    Iraqi–Kurdish conflict First Iraqi–Kurdish War Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Dhofar Rebellion North Yemen civil war Feb. 1963 Iraqi coup Mar. 1963 Syrian coup...
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