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The existence of the city of Ubulla goes back to the 4 th century BC. The city which Greeks gave a high importance during the invasion of Alexander the Great maintained this situation in the later periods in terms of providing the conduct between the far East and the Near East. This port city which had a growing commercial importance during the Parthians reached its brightest period after the foundation of the Sassanids. The city, which has also a big importance during the Islamic conquests, had astonishing wealth after the conquest of it by Muslims. Prophet Mohammed also drew the attention of Muslims tothis city by his hadiths. There fore, Muslims did important works in order to improvea gri culturein the city in addition to the commercial activities. Ubulla port city which started to loose its importance against Basra city after thees tablishment of it maintain edits commercial existence until the Abbasids period. However The City Ubulla, mentioned as built-up place by the river with its mansions, bazaars, mosques, caravanserais and spoken of its beauty astonishingly, lost its former commercial importance after the fifth Hijri century (i.e eleventh Gregorian). “While the Ubulla city used to be a huge commercial city in advance of the Persian and Indo traders, now It has been a Village in which ruined palace and a village-like structures can be seen."says Ibn Batuta who visited the Ubulla in the fourteenth century. At the industry, The Ubulla, The last stop of the merchant ships coming from Indian Ocean to Persian Gulf has been abandoned completely after the seventh Hijri century and so, It had to withdraw from the scene of history.

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