Dibba Al-Hisn has been an important site of maritime trade and settlement since the pre-Islamic era.

Although there is slight information, mainly from tombs, of settlement during the later second millennium and early first millennium BCE, contemporary with such sites as Shimal, Tell Abraq and Rumeilah, and of scattered occupation during the period of al-Dur and Mileiha, most mention of Dibba is in the period just prior to and after the coming of Islam.

Dibba Al-Hisn is believed to be the site where the Portuguese during the Habsburg Dynasty built a fort and a wall around the city.

The terms required the Portuguese to build the fortress of Kuriyat, Dibba Al-Hisn and Matrah (Oman).

[3] Dibba Al-Hisn has transformed in a short period of time from an oasis residing in the past, into a thriving city that is being renewed at an increasing pace.