Bushire
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Amid the tension, a letter lands on the desk of William Bruce, Britain's Resident in Bushire, on the Persian Gulf.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very quietly last year the Persian Gulf base of the Royal Navy was moved from Iran's famed Bushire to Bahrein and thus outside the immediate domain of Iran's King of Kings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bushire is the great starting-point of travellers from India who desire "to go home through Persia" by Shiraz and Persepolis.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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