Basra, in the language of the Arabs means the large land where loose stones, and was told the stones are solid, and was named to Basra Glzaa and intensity. There are those who say that Basra name Ajami parsed, originally Bass Rah, which means in Persian with the many complex ways.
And it was built near the village of "insight" that date back to ancient times in history.
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Iraq