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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as unnecessary to burn thesulphur. All the same, each box or trunk was solemnlylifted on the stand and as solemnly lifted off, and withthe politeness, of which only a Turk of the old school is the true possessor, the quarantine official declared thatwe might remove our baggage. The other official care-fully poured the sulphur back into his box, and theceremony of fumigation was complete. Al-Basrah, also known as Basra, Bassora, Bassorah,Balsora, Balsorah, Bulsorah, Busra, Busrah (in SyriaBasra or Busra) is a small but important town whichstands on the west bank of the Shatt al-Arab, and isabout 70 miles from Faw, 38 miles from Kurnah (thepoint where the Tigris and Euphrates join) and 300 mUesfrom Baghdad as the crow flies, but 520 miles by river.Basrah derives its name from the whitish grey pebbleswhich are, or were, so abundant in its neighbourhood.According to Masudi (iv, 225), the city was founded byOtba, the son of Azwan, who was sent to the country of To face l>. lO I, vol. !.
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Founding of Al-Basrah. 165 Basrah by Omar, a.h. 14 ( = a.d. 635), but some saythat it was not founded until a.h. 16 ( = a.d. 637),after the expedition to Takrit. When Otba arrived inthe country of Basrah it was called the Land of India,and it was covered with whitish grey stones. He beganto build at a place called Al-Khurebah, i.e., the LittleRuin, a fact which suggests that Otba only rebuiltsome ancient city in the interest of the Arabs. Heprobably refounded Basrah just as Saad, the son ofWakkas, refounded Kufah, on the Euphrates, about thesame time. The Arabs must have met with great opposi-tion from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, for at theBattle of the Camel (a.h. 35 = a.d. 656) he lost 13,000men, and Talhah and Zuber, Companions of the Prophet,were slain. The old town of Basrah, or the town ofZuber as it was called, stood about ten miles from theShatt al-Arab, and had a canal on each side of it. Theentrance to the canal on its north side was at Makil, andthe entrance to th

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