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Basra   /bˈɑsrɑ/   Listen
Basra

noun
1.
The second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq.  Synonym: Basia.





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... war were sweeping across Mesopotamia and Arabia. In the last days of January, 1915, Lord Hardinge, Viceroy and Governor General of India, made a tour of the conquered territory around the Persian Gulf, and at Basra was received by the native community with an address of welcome, which expressed the hope of ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... united Euphrates and Tigris,) for the greater part of its course, forms the boundary between Persia and Turkey. Some twenty miles below Basra (or Bussorah) it is joined by the Kasun, near whose course, about a hundred miles from its mouth, are the Anglo-Persian ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various


Words linked to "Basra" :   port, Iraq, Al-Iraq, Republic of Iraq, city, metropolis, Irak, urban center


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