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Apr 8, 750
Persian Empire
From the 6th century BC to the 3rd century BC Bahrain was a pivotal part of the Persian Empire by the Achaemenids, an Iranian dynasty.[4] From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, Bahrain was controlled by two other Iranian dynasties, the Parthians and the Sassanids. By about 130 BC, the Parthian dynasty brought the Persian Gulf under their control and extended their influence as far as Oman. Because they needed to control the Persian Gulf trade route, the Parthians -
Apr 8, 1076
The Uyunids
The Uyunids Ruled from 1076 to 1235, When the Islands Where Briefly Occupied y the Turkic Salgharid Atabeg of Fars. -
Jan 1, 1250
Assyrian Inscriptions
The Assyrian Inscriptions are Dated Back to 1250 BC, Which Proclaimed The Assyrian King to be the King of Delmunia and Meluhha. Those Inscriptions Recorded Tribute from Dlimun. However Dilmun was Also Contorlled Over By The Kassite Dynsaty in Mesopotamia. -
Jan 1, 1370
Dilmun Civilization
Dilmun is Mentioned In Two Letters Dated To The Reign of Burna-Buriash, Recovered From Nippur, During the Kassite Dynsaty of Babylon. The Names Referred to Are Akkadin. -
Persian Safavid Rule
The Safavid dynasty had its origin in the Safaviyya Sufi order, which was established in the city of Ardabil in the Azerbaijan region. It was of mixed ancestry (Azerbaijani,[24] Kurdish,[25] Persian,[26] and Turkmen[27] which included intermarriages with Georgian,[28] Circassian,[29][30] and Pontic Greek[31] dignitaries). From their base in Ardabil, the Safavids established control over all of Greater Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region,[32] thus becoming the first native dyna -
Portuguese rule
The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: "In Awal (Bahrain) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places. A most wonderful al-Qasasir, where a man can dive into the salt sea with a skin and can fill it with fresh water while he is submerged in the salt water. Around Bahrain are pearl fisheries and a number of islands all of which have pearl fisheries and conn -
Re-Asserting Sovereignty
In 1730. the New Shah of Persia, Nadir Shah Sought to Re-Assert Persian Sovereignty in Bahrain, By Preparing An Invavion to Fleet in Bushehr by Latif Khan. -
Great Britain
Al Khalifa Tribe Gained Power in Bahrain and Entered A Treaty Relationship With Great Britan. -
delmon
Delmon Attacks 1 Jan 681Accordingly, Early Sites Discover That The King of Assyria (Sennacherib) has attacked the Northeast Persian Gulf and Captured Bahrain. The Most Recent Reference That Came To Dilmun Came During the Neo-Babylon Dynsaty. However Dilmun was Controlled By The King of Babylon (567 BC) There is both literary and archaeological evidence of extensive trade between Ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization (probably correctly identified with the land called Meluhha -
The Qarmatian Republic
At the end of the 3rd Hijri century, Abu Sa'id al-Hasan al-Janaby led the Revolution of al-Qaramita, a rebellion by a messianic Ismaili sect originating in Kufa in present day Iraq. Al-Janaby took over the city of Hajr, Bahrain's capital at that time, and al-Hasa, which he made the capital of his republic. Once in control of the state he sought to create a utopian society. The Qarmatians' goal was to build a society based on reason and equality. The state was governed by a council of six with a -
Tylos
Bahrain was referred to by the ancient Greeks as Tylos, the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus came to discover it serving under Alexander the Great.[14] From the 6th to 3rd century BC Bahrain was included in Persian Empire by Achaemenians, an Iranian dynasty.[4] The Greek admiral Nearchus is believed to have been the first of Alexander's commanders to visit this islands, and he found a verdant land that was part of a wide trading network; he recorded: “That in the island of Tylos, situated
