Basra

Also Busrah.

[buhs-ruh, bahs-rah]

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noun

a port in SE Iraq, N of the Persian Gulf.

Basra

/ ˈbʌsrə, ˈbæzrə /

noun

a port in SE Iraq, on the Shatt-al-Arab. Pop: 1 187 000 (2005 est)

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European immigration officials had repeatedly ruled that their home city of Basra, in southern Iraq, was no longer a war zone and their requests for asylum were all declined.

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Sukhi Basra, National Pharmacy Association vice chair, told London Assembly members that her patients had shown her photos of boxes "full of fake medicines".

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The authorities were forced to shut down airports in the provinces of Najaf and Basra.

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Belgium reportedly denied him asylum by arguing that Basra, his hometown in Iraq, was classified as a safe area.

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The tanker had been off the city of Basra, Iraq, loading crude oil bound for Aliaga, Turkey, for the Turkish refinery firm Tupras.