{"id":14667,"date":"2026-03-12T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/the-history-behind-sharjahs-development\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:31:14","slug":"the-history-behind-sharjahs-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/the-history-behind-sharjahs-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Behind Sharjah\u2019s Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<h2 data-start=\"243\" data-end=\"296\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sharjah_From_Ancient_Port_to_Cultural_Capital\"\/><strong data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"296\">Sharjah: From Ancient Port to Cultural Capital<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"658\">Sharjah has evolved over thousands of years \u2014 from a <strong data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"398\">Gulf trading settlement and maritime center<\/strong>, to a <strong data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"431\">British strategic base<\/strong>, to a <strong data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"468\">founding member of the UAE<\/strong>, and today a <strong data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"509\">global cultural capital<\/strong> recognized by UNESCO. Its development uniquely blends <strong data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"657\">heritage conservation with modern urban planning, education, sustainability, and the arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"663\"\/>\n<h2 data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"710\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Early_History_Maritime_Foundation\"\/><strong data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"710\">1. Early History &amp; Maritime Foundation<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"891\">Sharjah has been inhabited for more than <strong data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"767\">5,000 years<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"771\"\/>Its coastal location made it an important <strong data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"870\">trading, fishing, dhow-building, and pearl-diving hub<\/strong> in the Arabian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theuaeblog.com\/sharjah\/the-history-behind-sharjahs-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah: From Ancient Port to Cultural Capital Sharjah has evolved over thousands of years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-arab-emirates","category-1223"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}