Al Ruwais

British surveyors found about a hundred people here in the 1820s, mostly fishermen in a half-ruined town, and Lorimer's gazetteer credited the place with eighteen pearling boats and a four-towered fort around 1908. The sheikh had the northern settlements evacuated in the 1890s for defence; the state rebuilt this one, gave it a school in 1954 and a township's standing in 1972.