"Magan" problematic and its relation with Omani peninsula

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Magan province considers the second oldest and the most important region in the Arab gulf, the region was mentioned in cuneiform, text at the beginning of the third millennium before Christ. (B.C.) in their description to the marine activities, especially the commercial ones between the south of ancient Iraq (Mesoposamia) and the provinces of the Arab gulf. This region is a large area including the pensiula of Oman and the U.A.E. and this area was known in the past "the countries of Magan or "Magan".
The Omani peninsula considers a great province which is surrounded by the Arab sea from the south, the Arab gulf from the north and the empty space from the west, the province penetrates from the north to the south Oman hills which were played an important role in the province economies.
The sea plays an important role and an effective place in the economies in the ancient ages, the Omani played a commercial factor among the Indian oceans countries and the countries of the Arab gulf and the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea across beneath the land of two rivers countries.
The civil index of signs which were discovered a lot of them in some locations and the civil centers in U.A.E. and Oman in addition to the special monarchy which belongs to the cutes kings and the commercial contrasts which mentioned the essential materials and the complementary ones which are form the contents and the privacies of Magan which removed the doubts of the site of Magan province as a part of geographical area of the Arab civilization.
As it for the problematic of Magan location , all of the evidences which were saved up till now made a general opinion for the researches that Magan is in the region which is known today with Oman at the end of the southeast of the Arab pensiula – this opinion is supported by the cutes texts of Magan , that it is the land of copper and it was proved that Oman was the center of copper production in the past and it was known from the geological studies that copper source was in the green mountain in Oman that it was discovered the rest of metals and it was estimated the amount which consumed of the metal from this mountain was about 100000 tons at the ancient times, Besides that it was a region had the name of Magan lies between Oman and Tatuban and its position to the western north from Mosquet about 720 K.m. and from the east of the famous yabrine Oasis .from all of these we can remove the doubts of Oman determination of the location about Maganin the special texts in the cutes language.