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Basra (Arabic: ٱلْبَصْرَة, romanized: al-Baṣrah) is a port city in southern Iraq.It is the capital of the eponymous Basra Governorate, as well as the third largest city in Iraq overall, behind Baghdad and Mosul.
Basra is a fishing card game, similar to cassino, and popular in Cyprus. The game is also popular in Egypt, Lebanon, and other Middle Eastern countries. The name is Greek borrowing from the Arabic word Basra. In Turkey, the game is known as pişti or pişpirik. [1]
The Zanj Rebellion (Arabic: ثورة الزنج Thawrat al-Zanj / Zinj) was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883.Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved both enslaved and freed East Africans or Abyssinians (collectively termed "Zanj" in this case) exported in the Indian ...
Dried lime, also known as: black lime; [1] noomi basra ; [2] limoo amani ; and loomi , [3] is a lime that has lost its water content, usually after having spent a majority of its drying time in the sun.
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 Basra Vilayet (Arabic: ولاية البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بصره, romanized: Vilâyet-i Basra) was a first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It historically covered an area stretching from Nasiriyah and Amarah in the north to Kuwait in the south. [ 1 ]
Bosra was the first Nabatean city in the 2nd century BC. The Nabatean Kingdom was conquered by Cornelius Palma, a general of Trajan, in 106 AD.. According to John Malalas, it was called Bostra (Ancient Greek: Βόστρα) after Bostras, a Roman general who was sent into the country.
The first Grammarians of Baṣra lived during the seventh century in Al-Baṣrah. [1] The town, which developed out of a military encampment, with buildings being constructed circa 638 AD, [2] became the intellectual hub for grammarians, linguists, poets, philologists, genealogists, traditionists, zoologists, meteorologists, and above all exegetes of Qur’ānic tafsir and Ḥadīth, from ...