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Salala is a main city in the Dhofar region. Sultan Said bin Taymur left the capital Muscat in 1958 and settled in Salala. By 1965 people in the region grew tired of Said’s oppressive ways and started a revolt which was joined by the Arabs and Yemenites who wanted to split up Oman. Britain who did not want the Dhohar region to hurt the oil-producing coastal cities of Oman stepped in. Seyyid Qaboos took this chance to put his own father, Said bin Taymur out of power, by chasing him out of the country, and established himself in Muscat as Sultan. (p.112 Modern Gulf States by Rosemarie Said Zahlan)