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Definition of Basra

1. Noun. The second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq.

Definition of Basra

1. Proper noun. A city and port in southeast Iraq. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basra

Literary usage of Basra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization), Andrew Whitley (1992)
""The streets were full of people, many of them soldiers," recalled an exiled Iraqi businessman who had entered Basra from Iran shortly after the uprising ..."

2. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"Basra was now their head-quarters. For a full century we shall find it such, ... Cairo in the west much what Basra had been at the outset in the east. ..."

3. The Persian Problem: An Examination of the Rival Positions of Russia and by Henry James Whigham (1903)
"Buckland must lighten before entering and leaving the river, and are forced to employ supplementary cargo-boats running backwards and forwards between Basra ..."

4. Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia: Including a Residence by Austen Henry Layard (1887)
"I HAD hoped to find at Basra one of the armed steamers then employed by the East India Company in the navigation of the Euphrates and Tigris, ..."

5. Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War by James Brown Scott (1916)
"to have left for Basra to work anti-English propaganda, and other agents, including Germans, are said to be on their way to Afghanistan on similar errand. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Except the capital, Basra, there arc no towns of importance, Korna, ... Basra is the port of Bagdad, with which it has steam communication by an English ..."

7. The World at War by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1917)
"THE CONQUEST OF Basra (November, 1914) The importance of the recent English victory at Basra has been said to reside chiefly in the moral effect it will ..."

8. Report on India and Persia of the Deputation: Sent by the Board of Foreign by Robert Elliott Speer, Russell. Carter (1922)
"LETTERS FROM THE STATIONS (1) Basra AND BAGDAD Hamadan, Persia, January 18, 1922. ... Basra itself, however, which is the head of ocean-going navigation, ..."

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