Muscat and Oman

Muscat and Oman, officially the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, was a state under de facto British protection that existed in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twentieth century. It covered the present-day Sultanate of Oman and parts of present-day United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. It arose in 1856, when the Omani Empire split into two separate political entities on the death of its last ruler, Said bin Sultan: the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The Muscat and Oman state stayed under the Al Busaid dynasty until the palace coup of 23 July 1970, in which Sultan Said bin Taimur was overthrown by the British and his son Qaboos bin Said, who then established the modern Sultanate of Oman.