Crossword clues for basra
basra
- Port targeted by Desert Storm
- Port in southeastern Iraq
- Iraq's principal port
- Iraq port city
- City on the Shatt al-Arab river
- City about 300 miles from Baghdad
- Southern Iraqi oil city
- Southern Iraq city
- Southeastern Iraqi port
- Sinbad's home port
- Sinbad the Sailor's town
- Sinbad the Sailor's hometown
- Shatt-al-Arab port
- Port on the Persian Gulf
- Port ofIraq
- Port north of Kuwait City
- Port in SE Iraq
- Middle Eastern city where Sinbad the Sailor is from
- Major port near the Persian Gulf
- Major port in Iraq
- Major Iraqi port
- Main port of Iraq
- Iraqi port that Sinbad sailed from
- Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS
- Iraqi city of about 3,000,000
- Iraqi city founded in 636
- Iraq's only port city
- Iraq seaport
- Iraq city where the Garden of Eden was (supposedly)
- Home of Sinbad Island
- First major city north of Kuwait
- City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS
- City on the Shatt al-Arab waterway
- City of southeast Iraq
- City of Iraq
- Besieged Gulf War city
- 2003 Iraq War battleground
- Iraq's second-largest city
- Iraqi city near the Persian Gulf
- Iraqi port city
- Port of Iraq
- Port on the Shatt-al-Arab
- Big Iraqi port
- Persian Gulf port
- Mideast port that was home to Sinbad the sailor
- City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS
- Iraqi seaport
- City bombed in the gulf war
- Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come"
- Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS
- Southern Iraqi city
- Home of Sinbad the sailor
- Arab city whose name is an anagram of ARABS
- Arabian port that's home to Sinbad Island
- An oil port in southern Iraq
- Shatt al Arab port
- Port city of Iraq
- Major port of Iraq
- Port in Iraq
- South Iraqi oil port
- Horse mounted outside southern port
- After retiring, a Scotsman drinks a little Spanish port
- Iraq's main port
- Desert Storm target
- Oil port
- Seaport of Iraq
- Port in southeast Iraq
- Iraqi metropolis
- City of southeastern Iraq
- City in southern Iraq
- City in Iraq
- Southern Iraq port
- Principal port of Iraq
Wikipedia
Basra, also al-Baṣrah , is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab between Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of 1.5 million of 2012. 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 part of the historic location of Sumer, one of the ports from which Sinbad the Sailor journeyed, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden. It played an important role in early Islamic history and was built in 636 (14 AH). Basra is consistently one of the hottest cities in Iraq, with summer temperatures regularly exceeding .
Basra is the capital of Basra Governorate, in Iraq.
Basra may also refer to:
Basra is the debut album by American drummer Pete La Roca, recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.
Usage examples of "basra".
Port Sudan, Massawa, the new port which is being developed in the Red Sea, Asmara, Basra, Tobruk, etc.
Ibn ad-Duraihim, but its beginnings are probably to be found in the intense and minute scrutiny of the Koran by whole schools of grammarians in Basra, Kufa, and Baghdad to elucidate its meanings.
Amery telegraphed in this sense to the Viceroy on the same day, and Lord Linlithgow and the Commander-in-Chief, General Auchinleck, promptly offered to divert to Basra an infantry brigade and a regiment of field artillery, most of which was already on board ship for Malaya.
JAFAR Sir, we are four merchants who came yesterday night from Basra, and on our arrival we met in the street a man of Basra settled in Bagdad, who prayed us to dine with him.
It must be the widow of that Achmet they hung last year by the Basra Gate.
So we accepted and stayed late talking the talk of Basra, and left him but an hour ago.
RAFI Had I but known thee last night, thou man of Basra, whom men call Caliph of the Faithful--O thou massacrer of good men--had I but known thee, had I but known thee!
Two were letters from the company’s Basra office, describing negotiations with a Yu Yongfu, president of Flying Dragon, con earning a cargo of agricultural implements, chemicals, electronics, and other goods to be delivered to the company on a ship named The Dowager Empress.
The Euphrates formerly reached the sea by a separate channel, which was obstructed and diverted by the citizens of Orchoe, about twenty miles to the south-east of modern Basra.
Carpets from Isfahan, pearls from Basra, enameled leather from Có.
On almost every day, the pandemonium in the market square outdid the rest of Basra put together.