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Al-Faw Coast in Basra, overlooking the Arabian Gulf - Iraq

Al-Faw Coast in Basra, overlooking the Arabian Gulf - Iraq Al-Faw Peninsula is located in the south of Basra Governorate, at a distance of about 100 km.. It was inhabited by Iraqis, some of whom came from the Najd region and settled there centuries ago. During the Ottoman rule, Al-Faw was a garrison that was dropped by British guns in the invasion of 1914. Al-Faw is a district center in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, located on the Al-Faw Peninsula at the mouth of the Shatt Al-Arab in the Persian Gulf. The history of Al-Faw dates back to the year (2500 BC), and according to the historical finds, the Assyrian King Sennacherib called it (Ribu Salamo), which means the door of safety, and the Arabs called it in 635 AD, the area of water of patience, which means bitterness, and the Ottoman governor called it Madha Pasha, the key to Iraq, and Salah al-Din said about it Al-Sabbagh was one of the leaders of the May Revolution of 1941, Ard Al-Salamah. Linguists differed in interpreting the meaning of faw, as Yaqut al-Hamawi said that it is the wide ravine between two mountains, and it was said that it is the faw hanging over the Arabian Gulf. Al-Faw got its name from a ship that was wrecked on the underwater rocks called Al-Faw. Historical sources indicated that Al-Faw witnessed an attempt by the Elamites to occupy it in ancient times, but they failed to do so after they lost the battle that took place near the Karkh River in front of the Assyrian army coming from Iraq and killed the Elamite commander. This battle left inscriptions and writings still engraved on slabs of alabaster. It warns the people of Elam against re-harassment in Iraq and begins with the phrase (from here passed the great king of Iraq). In history, the Portuguese, the Ottomans and the British who occupied it in 1914 disputed over it, while Iran occupied it in February 1986 and it was liberated during April 1988 by the Iraqi forces at the time. To keep Al-Faw an Iraqi city that tells history the stories of the struggle of Iraqis against the foreign occupiers. The city of Al-Faw is distinguished by the abundance of its streams and rivers. Historians mention that there are (172) in number and are distributed among regions and provinces such as Kut Bandar and Kut Abbas, which includes eight rivers and (18) rivers in Kut al-Khalifa, including the Halawi River and Tawq Al-Aghawat, Bab Al-Hawaa River, and (17) rivers in Al-Fadaghiyah, including the Al-Dawar, Ibn Eid, Al-Khajiya, Baraka, and Al-Hashannam rivers. As for the Dora, there are (40) rivers, including the Beit Khalifa River, Hasan Sabbagh, Halub, Ibn Wali, and Tina River, and in the Al-Maamer region (37) rivers. On (52) rivers, including Al-Abbadi, Sanafi, Manna, Beit Mashkour, and Kheniz. Al-Faw was famous for its date palms and produced more than (42) varieties of the finest types of dates, including Seta Omran, Ashqar, Asabi’ Al-Arous, Um Al-Dahn, Al-Barhi, Bint Al-Souda, Al-Barim, Bint Al-Saba’, Bint Al-Safra, Al-Zahdi, Khadrawi, Maktum Ahmar, Qantar and Jijab. And Hamrawi and other types, Al-Faw became the main port of Iraq in 1923, and it was frequented by a number of steamships, sailing ships, and tankers of crude oil exported outside Iraq, and this activity continued until 1931 when King Faisal I opened the port of Al-Maqil when he came by a special train accompanied by the Prime Minister and the heads of the Senate and deputies.