Name | Basra |
Alt names | Al Basrah | source: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 338 | | Al-Baṣrah | source: Getty Vocabulary Program | | Basara | source: Wikipedia | | Bassorah | source: Wikipedia | | Başrah | source: Wikipedia | | Bosra | source: BHA, Authority file (2003-) | | Bosrâ | source: GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989) | | Bostra | source: Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) | | Busra | source: Wikipedia | | Busrah | source: Wikipedia | | Busrâ | source: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) | | Bussora | source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 121 | | Bussorah | source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 121 |
Type | City or town |
Coordinates | 30.483°N 47.817°E |
Located in | Basra, Iraq (638 - ) |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Basra is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is handled at the port of Umm Qasr.
The city is one of the ports from which the fictional Sinbad the Sailor journeyed. The city was built in 636 and has played an important role in Islamic Golden Age. Basra is consistently one of the hottest cities in Iraq, with summer temperatures regularly exceeding . In April 2017, the Iraqi Parliament recognized Basra as Iraq's economic capital.
Early history
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