Complex sentence: Balad traces its history 2,500 years back as a fishing village when the "Quda'a (Arabic: قضاعة)" fishermen tribe settled there little knowing that they had established the cornerstone for one of the most thriving and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of the Arab world.
Split into simpler sentences: Balad traces its history 2,500 years back as a fishing village when the "Quda'a (Arabic: قضاعة)" fishermen tribe settled there. They little knew that they had established the cornerstone for one of the most thriving and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of the Arab world.