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Homage to Oman Volume 50 Number 3, May/June 1997

One hundred miles southwest of Muscat, this fort was built between 1670 and 1680 to protect a local oasis and trade routes passing through the regional capital of Nizwa. (Photograph by Nicolas Sapieha)

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