Dubai
British government. In 1833, following tribal feuding, the Al Maktoum dynasty (also descendants of the House of
Al-Falasi) of the Bani Yas tribe left their ancestral home of the Liwa Oasis, south-west of the settlement of Abu
Dhabi, and quickly took over Dubai from the Abu Falasa clan without resistance.
Dubai came under the protection of the United Kingdom by the Exclusive Agreement of 1892, in which the UK
agreed to protect Dubai against the developing interests of France, Germany, and Russia in the Persian Gu