Theme Week Bahrain – Sitra Island

28 January 2017 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Bahrain Petroleum Company - First Oil Well plaque © flickr.com - David Brossard/cc-by-sa-2.0

Bahrain Petroleum Company – First Oil Well plaque © flickr.com – David Brossard/cc-by-sa-2.0

Sitra, also known as Sitrah, is an island in Bahrain. It has a distance of 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island. Sitra Island had a mixed Shia and Sunni Arab population. The Sunni inhabitants (including the Al Buainain) tribe which inhabited the now deserted village of Salba, west of Sitra eradicated during the early 1920s when most of them died as a result of smallpox or migrated back to their homelands.   read more…

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