Bandar Jissah

Bandar Jissah
Town
Bandar Jissah
Location in Oman
Coordinates: 23°33′5″N 58°38′34″E / 23.55139°N 58.64278°E / 23.55139; 58.64278Coordinates: 23°33′5″N 58°38′34″E / 23.55139°N 58.64278°E / 23.55139; 58.64278
Country  Oman
Governorate Muscat Governorate
Time zone UTC+4 (+4)

Bandar Jissah (Arabic: بندر الجصة‎) is a coastal town in northeastern Oman.[1][2]

Bandar Jissah was the centre of a Cause célèbre in Anglo-Omani relations in 1898, which was later called Oman’s Fashoda Incident

The Sultan of the day, the Gujerati speaking Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, wearying of the tiresome British complaints about his trade in slaves, turned to the French, who were more relaxed about such things. He agreed to let them establish a coaling-station at Bandar Jissah. This was too much for the British, one object of whose presence in Muscat had for a long been to frustrate French designs in the region. The Sultan was forced to rescind his agreement with the French on pain of having his Muscat palace blown to smithereens.[2]


References

  1. ↑ Microsoft; Nokia (15 June 2017). "Bandar Jissah" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 Ivor Lucas (15 June 1997), A Road To Damascus: Mainly Diplomatic Memoirs from the Middle East, The Radcliffe Press, p. 197, ISBN 978-1-86064-152-7, retrieved 15 June 2017
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