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15 unusual facts about Ajman


Al Maya Group

The Al Maya Group in the Middle East commenced its business operations with a stand-alone supermarket in Ajman in the late 1970s.

Amiri decree

# Amiri Decree No. 3 of 1988 as amended by the Amiri Decree No. 3 of 1996 (Ajman, UAE) creating and granting autonomous status to the Ajman Free Zone3

Constitution of the United Arab Emirates

## National Assembly composition: 8 seats each of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, 6 each for Sharjah and Ras al Khaimah, and 4 each for Ajman, Umm al Quwain and Fujairah

Deira City Centre

Deira City Centre is owned by the Majid Al Futtaim group, and is one of six City Centre malls — the others are located in Ajman, Alexandria, Cairo, Muscat and Sharjah.

Education in the United Arab Emirates

Gulf Medical University is based in the Emirate of Ajman.

Europa Philharmonie

This tour also took the orchestra to Abu-Dhabi, Ajman and Oman, where the orchestra performed traditional New Year's concerts.

Javad Kazemian

In 2008, he went on loan to Ajman football club, following a series of poor performances with Al-Shabab.

Khalfan Mubarak

Khalfan was born in Ajman, to father Mubarak Khalfan, a colonel in ajman police, former footballer in ajman club.

Kısmetim-1 incident

On the way to Port of Ajman before dawn, the captain ordered to pickup goods from a motorboat on high sea, which docked the ship.

The Pakistani policeman asked the Turkish crew member to deliver a package to Ajman, a port in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Rough cownose ray

It is also found off the coast of Ajman, United Arab Emirates, as mentioned in a picture of this species in Ajman Museum (which is located in the Emirate of Ajman) as follows: (غُرابي, Rhinopetra adspersa, Eagle ray).

Thomas Barger

He married Kathleen Elizabeth Ray on November 18, 1937 shortly before heading off to Saudi Arabia by himself for what ended up being three years exploring potential oil sites in the Saudi Arabian desert along with fellow American geologists Max Steineke, Jerry Harriss, Ernie Berg and others as well as a group of Bedouin guides headed by Khamis bin Rimthan of the Ajman tribe.

Thumbay Moideen

He was the first expatriate to be invited by the Rulers of Ajman to start a medical college in U.A.E., as there was no existing set-up to cater to the needs of the students to pursue higher education in medicine and healthcare sciences in the private sector.

UAE Chess Federation

Later on, chess started to spread across all Emirates and chess clubs were set up in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah and Al-Ain.

Yalla Habibi

It was shot in Dubai and Ajman, in the United Arab Emirates, with Karl Wolf as director, Dominic Lachance as Co-Director and Editor, Ahmed Kardous as D.O.P and Yasir Alyasiri as producer.


Flag of the United Arab Emirates

The Flag of Umm al-Quwain consists of a red background, a white bar at the hoist similar the flags of Ajman and Dubai, and a large white star and crescent in the center similar to the flag of Turkey.

General Maritime Treaty of 1820

The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 was a treaty initially signed between the rulers of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain and the United Kingdom in January 1820, with the nearby island state of Bahrain acceding to the treaty in the following February.

United Arab Emirates national cricket team

The game spread during World War II, The Royal Air Force of Britain and other Commonwealth forces (which included first-class and club cricketers from Australia and New Zealand) stationed in the cities like Ajman, Al Ain, Dubai and Sharjah, continued their favourite pastime.

Yaser Birjas

Birjas completed high school in 1988, after which he moved to Ajman in the United Arab Emirates, where he enrolled in studies in Electronic Engineering at the Ajman University of Science and Technology.