Sunday, 22 January 2012

Tripoli Libya


This city founded in 7th century.  In beginning of 15h century city was taken by Don Pedro Navarro for Spain. After that the knights of the St John. But in the mid of 15th century they were surrendered to Ottomans (Turks).Italy also rules Tripoli in 19th century.
Main Sights of the city are area which called madina is attracting tourists now days. The Red Castle Museum is also very fascinating. And in the city there are many statues can be seen built by Ottomans (Turks). The Bazaar is also famous for its cultural cloths and handicrafts. There were many nice old buildings built by Italians but later demolished according to Gaddafi’s order. The Tripoli Cathedral was built in 1920 by Italy but in 1970 converted into a Mosque is also very famous place to visit.
There are many well known universities and collages in Tripoli serving the new generation. University of Tripoli, Open University and Al Fateh University are major schools.  

Casablanca

Casablanca is on Atlantic Ocean and to the west side of morocco. This beautiful city has major port doing all positive things to boost the economy of morocco and al Maghrib. This is also largest populated city in Maghrib. It has also importance in morocco as a large industrial hub and many multinational offices are here. On the other side the political centre of morocco is Rabat. In 19th century when French were trying to build a railway system near the port some locals start attacking them and that was the beginning of French rule there. in world war 2 Casablanca was large airbase of allied forces fuelling up the fight in European side.

Major sites of this city are Hassan 2 Mosque, Parc de la Ligue Park which is the largest Park in the city, and information technology business cluster.

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Dubai

Well. Dubai is world known place and many peoples knows about this place for the shopping festivals and dessert safari and other entertainment events. But history of Dubai is not very old. Dubai established in 18th century by khalifa makhtum along with his tribe bani yas who was living before in some areas of Saudi Arabia. They came in this part which called now a days Dubai. At that time 800 peoples of bani yas came here to establish the city. The major resource of Dubai’s economy is oil industry. The oldest building in Dubai is al fahad fort which was built in 1799. Now a days Dubai is tourism transports and construction and trading hub for all countries in the world. You can see hundreds of sky scrapers and world known deira sky line and burj al Arab here. Famous events in Dubai are dessert rock festival. And Dubai shopping festival.