Jumeirah ( Arabic : جُمَيْرَا , romanized : Jumayrā Emirati pronunciation: [dʒʊˈmeːrɐ] ) is a coastal residential area of Dubai , United Arab Emirates mainly comprising low rise private dwellings and hotel developments. It has both expensive and large detached properties as well as more modest town houses built in a variety of architectural styles. The area is popular with expatriates working in the emirate and is familiar to many tourists visiting Dubai.
5-560: Archaeological excavations at Jumeirah Archaeological Site , which was discovered in 1969, demonstrate that the area was inhabited as far back as the Abbasid era , approximately in the 10th century CE . Measuring about 80,000 m (860,000 sq ft), the site lay along a caravan route linking India and China to Oman and Iraq . Historically, Emirati people living in Jumeirah were fishermen , pearl divers and traders . At
10-450: A mosque , caravanserai , and residential houses to glazed pottery jars and plateware, bronze coins , glass and stone artefacts . It is owned and managed by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority . Archaeological excavations at the site, which was discovered in 1969, demonstrate that the area was inhabited as far back as the Abbasid era , approximately in the 10th century CE . Measuring about 80,000 m (860,000 sq ft),
15-726: The former Chicago Beach Hotel. The locale's peculiar name had its origins in the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which at one time welded giant floating oil storage tankers called "Kazzans" on the site. The old name persisted for a time after the old hotel was demolished in 1997. "Dubai Chicago Beach Hotel" was the Public Project Name for the construction phase of the Burj Al Arab Hotel until Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced
20-576: The new name: Burj Al Arab. The Theatre of Digital Art (ToDA) opened in 2020 at Souk Madinat in Jumeirah as an exhibition space for digital art . Jumeirah Archaeological Site The Jumeirah Archaeological Site is a site which dates back to the Abbasid period in the 10th century CE, in the district of Jumeirah in the city of Dubai , the United Arab Emirates . It was first excavated in 1969 with different ancient items including architectural and decorative findings, ranging from
25-457: The turn of the 20th century, it was a village of some 45 areesh (palm leaf) huts, inhabited mainly by settled Bedouin of the Bani Yas and Manasir tribes. At the time, Jumeirah was 'about 3 miles southwest of Dibai town'. In modern times (1960 onwards), Jumeirah was the principal area for western expatriate residences. The beachfront area was previously called "Chicago Beach", as the site of
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