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. Other districts of Basra include Al-Qurna, Al-Zubair, Al-Midaina, Shatt Al-Arab, Abu Al-Khaseeb and Al-Faw located on the Persian Gulf. It is the only governorate with a coastline.
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BasraGovernorate (Arabic: محافظة البصرة Muḥāfaẓa al-Baṣra), also called Basra Province, is a governorate in southern Iraq in the region of Arabian Peninsula...
Basra (Arabic: ٱلْبَصْرَة, romanized: al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq. It is the capital and largest city of the eponymous BasraGovernorate, as...
The siege of Basra, code-named Operation Karbala-5 (Persian: عملیات کربلای ۵) or The Great Harvest (Arabic: الحصاد الاكبر), was an offensive operation...
Kurdistan Region. Baghdad (which is the most populous) and Basra are the oldest governorates. The second most-populous one, Ninawa (or Nineveh) is in the...
was merged into the existing BasraGovernorate, while southern Kuwait was carved out as the all-new Kuwait Governorate. By November 1990, the adoption...
the capital of Al-Zubair District, part of the BasraGovernorate of Iraq. The city is just south of Basra. The name can also refer to the old Emirate of...
The Basragovernorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk....
representatives represent more local voices (as opposed to the entire governorate they were previously elected from), reduce deadlocks resulting from inconclusive...
City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the governorates as the constituencies, is the electoral system used. The counting system...
Iraq's 18 governorates are subdivided into 120 districts (kaza). The district usually bears the same name as the district capital. The districts are listed...
an island, as they are joined together at the Shatt al-Arab in the BasraGovernorate of Iraq, and their sources in eastern Turkey are in close proximity...
الاسعار". 15 June 2021. "Gulf 25 inspection team concludes its tour of Basra, holds a press conference – اتحاد كأس الخليج العربي لكرة القدم". "Deputy...
parliamentary elections. The Tasmeem Alliance won five MP seats in BasraGovernorate. The local provincial council elections in December 2023 witnessed...
field located in southern Iraq, approximately 50km to the south west of Basra City. Discovered in 1953 by the Basrah Petroleum Company (BPC), an associate...
absorbed into Iraq's existing BasraGovernorate, and the "Kuwait Governorate" in the south, which became Iraq's 19th governorate. The invasion of Kuwait was...
2003. The following day, coalition forces launched an incursion into BasraGovernorate from their massing point close to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. While...
The Artawi oil field is an oil field located in BasraGovernorate. It was discovered in 1950 and developed by Basrah Oil Company. It will begin production...
The Qurnah disaster was a May 1855 shipwreck at Al-Qurnah (modern Iraq), at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It represents one...
founded and given its name in 637–638 CE, about the same time as Basra. Kufa and Basra were the two amsar (garrison cities) of Iraq, serving as military...
1991 the British 1st Armoured Division secured the final objectives on the Basra Highway north of Multa Ridge.: 377 The British 1st Armoured Division had...
The Basragovernorate election of 2013 was held on 20 April 2013 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan, Kirkuk, Anbar...
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