Jumeirah ( ar, جُمَيْرَا, Jumayrā Emirati pronunciation: ) is a coastal residential area of

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mainly comprising low rise private dwellings and hotel developments. It has both expensive and large detached properties as well as more modest town houses built in a variety of architectural styles. The area is popular with

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working in the

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and is familiar to many tourists visiting Dubai.

History

Archaeological excavations at Jumeirah Archaeological Site, which was discovered in 1969, demonstrate that the area was inhabited as far back as the Abbasid era, approximately in the 10th century CE. Measuring about , the site lay along a caravan route linking

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and

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and

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. Historically, Emirati people living in Jumeirah were

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and traders. At the turn of the 20th century, it was a village of some 45 areesh (palm leaf) huts, inhabited mainly by settled

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of the

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and Manasir tribes. At the time, Jumeirah was 'about 3 miles southwest of Dibai town'. In modern times (1960 onwards), Jumeirah was the principal area for western expatriate residences. The beachfront area was previously called "Chicago Beach",Krane, Jim ''City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism'', page 103, St. Martin's Press (September 15, 2009) as the site of the former Chicago Beach Hotel. The locale's peculiar name had its origins in the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which at one time welded giant floating oil storage tankers called "Kazzans" on the site. The old name persisted for a time after the old hotel was demolished in 1997. "Dubai Chicago Beach Hotel" was the Public Project Name for the construction phase of the Burj Al Arab Hotel until

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announced the new name: Burj Al Arab. The Theatre of Digital Art (ToDA) opened in 2020 at Souk Madinat in Jumeirah as an exhibition space for

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References

External links

;Archaeological site
Jumeirah Archaeological Site
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority
Lonelyplanet website
;''Majlis Ghorfat Umm Al-Sheif''
Majlis Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority {{Neighborhoods in Dubai Communities in Dubai Populated coastal places in the United Arab Emirates

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