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Basra is known as "Iraq's economic and industrial capital". [58] The strategic location made the city, had transformed the city an important hub of trade and commerce. [59] Basra's economy is largely dependent on the oil and heavy industry. In the early 1970s, Basra was chosen as a nodal point for Iraq's development.
Basra Governorate (Arabic: محافظة البصرة Muḥāfaẓa al-Baṣra), also called Basra Province, is a governorate in southern Iraq in the region of Arabian Peninsula, bordering Kuwait to the south and Iran to the east. The capital is the city of Basra, located in the Basrah district.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy (or Archdiocese) of Basra (or Bassorah) is a non-metropolitan Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite, Syriac or Aramaic language) in southern Iraq. It is subject to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, without suffragan. Bishop of Basra
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638 CE - Military camp established by Utbah ibn Ghazwan per order of Omar ibn al-Khattab. [1]646 - Abdallah ibn Amer becomes governor. [2]658 - Battle of the Camel. [1]664 - Ziyad ibn Abihi becomes governor.
Al-Ubulla supplied Basra with fresh water and was noted for its linens and shipbuilding. [5] In 942, the governor of Uman captured the city on his way to Basra during his conflict with its strongman Abu'l-Husayn al-Baridi and his brother Abu Abdallah al-Baridi. According to the historian J. H. Kramers, the events of its occupation demonstrate ...
In the reign of Caliph Abu Bakr (632–634) they formed a garrison at At-Khatt, in Al-Bahrain, and in 656 they are recorded as having been entrusted with the guarding of the treasury at Al-Basra. [9] Ferrand (1926) shows that the name Sayabiga is derived directly from Sabag, which is a variation of Zabag.
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن العباس الصولي) (born c. 870 Gorgan – died between 941 and 948 Basra) was a Turkic scholar and a court companion of three Abbāsid caliphs: al-Muktafī, his successor al-Muqtadir, and later, al-Radi, whom he also tutored.