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Oman proper ( []) refers a historical area within the present-day Sultanate of Oman. It lay inland from Muscat
Muscat, Oman

Muscat is the Capital and largest city of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Muscat . As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797....
 beyond the Jebel Akhdar
Jebel Akhdar (Oman)

Also known as the camals hideout;The Jebel Akhdar, Jabal Akhdar or Al Jabal Al Akhdar is part of the Al Hajar Mountains range in Oman, which extends about 300 km northwest to southeast, between 50-100 km inland from the Gulf of Oman coast....
 (Green Mountains) and was centered on the city of Nizwa
Nizwa

Nizwa is the largest city in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region in Oman and was the capital of Oman proper. Nizwa is about 140 km from Muscat, Oman . The population is estimated at around 70,000 people including the two areas of Burkat Al Mooz and Jebel Akhdar ....
 in the area of the current region of Ad Dakhiliyah
Ad Dakhiliyah

Ad Dakhiliyah may refer to:* Ad Dakhiliyah Region, Oman* Dakhiliyah, Syria...
. Along with Muscat and Dhofar
Dhofar

The Dhofar region lies in Southern Oman, on the eastern border of Yemen. Its mountainous area covers and has the population of 215,960 as of census 2003....
, it was a constituent part of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
Muscat and Oman

Muscat and Oman was a country that encompassed the present day Sultanate of Oman and parts of the United Arab Emirates . It existed from about 1856 until about 1970....
 but with the 1970 palace coup
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
, the term Oman alone was applied to the entire country.

History
Oman proper was ruled by Ibadi
Ibadi

The Ibadi movement or Ibadiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Shi'a and Sunni denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman....
te imam
Imam

File:Medaillon chiite.jpgAn imam is an Islamic leadership position. Often the leader of a mosque and the community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads the prayer during Islamic gatherings....
s who exercised spiritual and often temporal authority over the region.






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Oman proper ( []) refers a historical area within the present-day Sultanate of Oman. It lay inland from Muscat
Muscat, Oman

Muscat is the Capital and largest city of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Muscat . As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797....
 beyond the Jebel Akhdar
Jebel Akhdar (Oman)

Also known as the camals hideout;The Jebel Akhdar, Jabal Akhdar or Al Jabal Al Akhdar is part of the Al Hajar Mountains range in Oman, which extends about 300 km northwest to southeast, between 50-100 km inland from the Gulf of Oman coast....
 (Green Mountains) and was centered on the city of Nizwa
Nizwa

Nizwa is the largest city in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region in Oman and was the capital of Oman proper. Nizwa is about 140 km from Muscat, Oman . The population is estimated at around 70,000 people including the two areas of Burkat Al Mooz and Jebel Akhdar ....
 in the area of the current region of Ad Dakhiliyah
Ad Dakhiliyah

Ad Dakhiliyah may refer to:* Ad Dakhiliyah Region, Oman* Dakhiliyah, Syria...
. Along with Muscat and Dhofar
Dhofar

The Dhofar region lies in Southern Oman, on the eastern border of Yemen. Its mountainous area covers and has the population of 215,960 as of census 2003....
, it was a constituent part of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
Muscat and Oman

Muscat and Oman was a country that encompassed the present day Sultanate of Oman and parts of the United Arab Emirates . It existed from about 1856 until about 1970....
 but with the 1970 palace coup
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
, the term Oman alone was applied to the entire country.

History


Oman proper was ruled by Ibadi
Ibadi

The Ibadi movement or Ibadiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Shi'a and Sunni denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman....
te imam
Imam

File:Medaillon chiite.jpgAn imam is an Islamic leadership position. Often the leader of a mosque and the community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads the prayer during Islamic gatherings....
s who exercised spiritual and often temporal authority over the region. There were often tensions between these imams and the sultan
Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
s of Muscat
Muscat, Oman

Muscat is the Capital and largest city of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Muscat . As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797....
 and in 1913, the election of Salim ibn Rashid al-Kharusi as imam led to the proclamation of the Imamate of Oman (Arabic: ????? ????? []) with its capital at Nizwa. In 1954, a new imam, Ghalib bin Ali
Imam Ghalib Bin Ali

Imam Ghalib bin Ali Al-Hinai was the last Imam of the Ibadi sect in Oman. He led the Ibadi sect from his Imamate of Oman in Nizwa and Oman proper starting in 1955 until the 1960s....
, attempted to gain further Omani independence from Muscat, an effort that took Sultan Said Bin Taimur of Muscat and his British suzerains five years to suppress. In 1957, Nizwa was taken, the imam was overthrown and exiled, and his position was abolished. In 1959, the last forces of the Imamate were defeated and the name of the whole of Muscat and Oman was changed to the Sultanate of Oman.

In current usage, Oman proper can also refer to the whole of the present-day sultanate minus the exclave
Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
s of Musandam
Musandam

The Musandam peninsula is an exclave of Oman, separated from the rest of the country by the United Arab Emirates. In the northern section of Musandam, around Kumzar, the current language is Kumzari, which is one of the south-western Iranian languages and a sub-branch of Persian language....
 and Madha
Madha

]]The Oman territory of Madha or Wadi Madha is an exclave of Oman, surrounded by the United Arab Emirates, and located halfway between the Musandam Peninsula and the rest of Oman....
.

State of Oman Stamp

Postal history


Following its overthrow, the Imamate of Oman issued postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
s of dubious postal value under the name of the State of Oman (Arabic: ???? ????? []).