al-Jebel al-Achdar (Oman)
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| Highest peak | Jebel Shams ( 2930 m ) | |
| location | Oman | |
| part of | Hajar Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 13 ′ N , 57 ° 17 ′ E | |
Al-Jabal al-Achdar ( Arabic الجبل الأخضر, DMG al-Ǧabal al-Aḫḍar 'the green mountain'; other transcriptions: Jebel Akhdar , Jabal Akhdar and Djebel Akhdar ) is a mountain range in Oman . It extends over a length of 300 km from northwest to southeast, about 50-100 km from the coast of the Gulf of Oman . The highest peak, the Jabal Schams ('Sun Mountain'), reaches a height of about 3000 m. (The information is not uniform). It is the highest point in Oman and the eastern Arabian Peninsula and is about 150 km from Muscat . The second highest point in Oman, the Jabal Kawr , is also located in these mountains.
Most of the mountain range is desert, only in higher regions fall about 300 mm of precipitation annually , so that bushes and trees are possible and agriculture can be practiced. Hence the name "Green Mountain".
Between 1957 and 1959, conflicts broke out in Jabal al-Achdar between the Omani military, supported by British soldiers from the SAS , and insurgents supported by Saudi Arabia.
With al-Jabal al-Achdar, a central mountain range of the mountains northeast of Nizva is also referred to in the narrower sense . There is a high plateau around the village of Saiq at an altitude of around 2000 meters with numerous small villages. Up until the turn of the millennium, this region was a restricted military area. An asphalt road has been leading up the mountain since 2005, but only four-wheel drive vehicles are permitted on this due to its steepness . Since then, numerous hotels have been built on the mountain.
Site inspections carried out provided the first indications that the Jabal al-Achdar could have been inhabited as early as the Neolithic . From the beginning of the 3rd millennium (Hafit period, 3200 to around 2500 BC), graves indicate nomadic settlement. Other graves date from the subsequent Iron Age .
Web links
- Oman's 'Green Mountain' declared nature reserve. Gulf News, Aug. 18, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanna Müller: In the shade of the pomegranate trees . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 5, 2014 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Jürgen Schreiber: Project “Transformation processes in oasis settlement of Oman”. Archaeological reconnaissance at Izki and the Jebel Akhdar. A preliminary report. Spring 2004