Manama (bhr)

Manama

Manama ranks 3,547th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mishima, Shizuoka, Metzingen, and Kryvyi Rih. Memorable people born in Manama include Jacqueline Fernandez, Mohamed Husain, and Ali Assadalla. Memorable people who died in Manama include Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. Manama has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many politicians. Manama is located in Bahrain.

Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a very diverse population. After periods of Portuguese and Persian control and a short invasion from the ruling dynasty of Saudi Arabia, followed by a longer invasion by Oman, Bahrain established itself as an independent nation in 1971 following a period of British hegemony. Read more on Wikipedia