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said bin sultan became ruler
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Oman profited off the slave trade under Sultan Said ibn Sultan Al Said's rule
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Sultan Qaboos presented his people with the "Basic Statutes of the State," Oman's first written "constitution".
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Oman and neighbouring United Arab Emirates (UAE) sign a border agreement defining most of their disputed common frontier.
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in september 2000 100,000 omani men and women elected 83 candidates to seats in the Majlis Al-Shura.