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The old capital in the interior of Oman located in the Jabal Akhdar (Green Mountain) plateau. From the first Imam (Julanda bin Musad) in 751 A.D. into the 16th century most imams lived in this city. The surrounding of mountains made it harder for outsiders to reach, unlike the coastal regions. It was under the Ya'aruba dynasty that the great fort at Nizwa was built. The Caliph Abbaside ordered the governor of the coastal region in Oman, Muhammad-bin-Bur to attack the ninth Imam of Oman, Azzan-bin-Temim, who he beheaded Muhammad ruled over Inner Oman with the greatest severity. Until, he was killed by his own people in Nizwa (24). (xvi George Percy’s Introduction to Imams and Seyyids of Oman)