Ash Shuwaymiyyah
village in Dhofar Governorate, Oman
Ash Shuwaymiyyah (Arabic: الشويمية, romanized: Ash Shuwaymīyah) is a coastal village in the Dhofar Governorate, in southern Oman. In 2024, it had a population of 1,059. It is home to one of the largest gypsum mines in Oman, where a mining port is planned for construction.
As of 2019, the village is one of the last places where the Baṭḥari language is spoken.
“Ash Shuwaymiyyah” enters the record as village in Dhofar Governorate, Oman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shuwaymiyyah, village and Dhofar can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Ash Shuwaymiyyah” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shuwaymiyyah, village and Dhofar provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126126541. Authority coordinates are 17.883, 55.600. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2019.
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