Hotels in Basra

Hotels in Basra

Basra is often a place that many people may want to visit. Hotels in Basra are often required for tourists who need a place to stay. Some may want to stay at in urban or rural areas of the city. Some may want to stay at large or small hotels. Some may want to stay at quality hotels in the city. Some may want to stay at luxury or cheap hotels in the city. Some may want to stay at hotels that have access to culture and to entertainment. Some may want to stay at well known hotels in the city. Some may want to stay at hotels that have access to the the historic tourist attractions.

Basra is often a place that many people may want to visit that many people may want to visit the city to see the culture and history of the city.

Al-Bas.rah is the capital of Basra Province. Basra is also Iraq's main port. The city is the historic location of Sumeria, the home of Sinbad the sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden. It also played an important role in early Islamic history, being built in 636 CE, or 14 AH.

The present city was founded in 636 as an encampment and garrison for the Arab tribesmen constituting the armies of amir `Umar ibn al-Khattab, a few kilometres south of the present city, where a tell still marks its site. While defeating the Sassanid forces there, the Muslim commander Utba ibn Ghazwan first set up camp there on the site of an old Persian settlement called Vahešta-ba-d Ardaši-r, which was destroyed by the Arabs. The name Al-Basrah, which in Arabic means "the over watching" or "the seeing everything", was given to it because of its role as a Military base against the Sassanid empire. Other sources however say its name originates from the Persian word Bas-ra-h or Bassora-h meaning "where many ways come together".

The Zanj Revolt took place near the city of Basra, located in southern Iraq over a period of fifteen years (869-883 AD). It grew to involve over 500,000 slaves who were imported from across the Muslim empire and claimed over “tens of thousands of lives in lower Iraq” . The revolt was said to have been led by Ali ibn Muhammad, who claimed to be a descendent of Caliph Ali ibn Abu Talib. Several historians, such as Al-Tabari and Al-Masudi, consider this revolt one of the “most vicious and brutal uprising” out of the many disturbances that plagued the Abbasid central government.

Basra was, for a long time, a flourishing commercial and cultural centre, until it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1668, after which it declined in importance, but it was fought over by Turks and Persians and was the scene of repeated attempts at resistance.

The city of Basra has a major role in H.G. Wells' 1934 future history The Shape of Things to Come , where the Iraqi city is at the center of a world state emerging after a collapse of civilization, and becomes in effect the capital of the world.

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