Referenced In

How I Found Livingstone
by Henry M. Stanley

"…the latest from Zanzibar and Oman, he asked me if I had much cloth with me."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"As early as the 16th year of the Hijra (A.D. 637) an Arab fleet from Oman made a hostile descent on the Island of Thána."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"The name Sheḥr in some of the Oriental geographies, includes the whole coast up to Omán."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"These ventilators are a kind of masonry windsail … and in general use over Oman, Kerman, the province of Baghdad, Mekrán, and Sind."