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	Basra
		Basra (also known as Basrah; Historically sometimes called Busra, Busrah, and early on Bassorah; Arabic: Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of about 1,377,000 in 2003.
		Under the name of Bassorah it is mentioned in the Arabian Nights, and Sinbad the Sailor was said to have begun his voyages here.
		It was long a flourishing commercial and cultural center, until it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1668, after which it declined in importance.
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		Battle of Abrittus; the Goths defeat the Romans klilling the Roman emperors Trajan Decius and Herennius Etruscus
		Battle of Feishui; the Jin Dynasty defeats the Former Qin dynasty in Anhui
		Death of the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I in the Battle of Pliska, defeated by the Bulgar khan Krum; succeeded by Stauracius as Byzantine emperor
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	Simon Ockley, History of the Saracens: Index
		Abu Sofian, mortal enemy to Mohammed, 17; loses the battle of Beder, 33; collects an army of three thousand men, 36; gains the battle of Ohud, 37; Amrou sent to assassinate him, 40; embraces Islamism, 53; his son Yezid appointed general of Abubeker’s force, 94; proved to be the father of Ziyad, 359.
		Musab, brother to Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, is routed, 436; made governor of Bassorah, 400; marches against Al Moktar, 461; he irritates the Bassorians, 467; killed, 468; his head taken to Abdalmelik; 471.
		Shamer begins the battle with Hosein, 406; he is killed by Al Moktar, 454.
	www.dinsdoc.com /ockley-1-6.htm (3404 words)

	Battle of Bassorah - Wikipedia Mirror
		The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal is a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 between forces allied to Caliph Ali and the superior forces of rebel Arabs allied to Aisha who opposed Ali's status as Caliph.
		Their fall, and that of many of the Companions, was a loss to the Ummah itself, because it left the Quraish seriously weak in the struggle yet to be fought out between them and those Arab tribes responsible for all the misunderstanding and Uthman's Murder.
		After the battle, the Caliph visited her tent, and expressed his satisfaction at finding her unhurt; adding mildly, but half reproachfully:—"The Lord pardon thee for what hath passed, and have mercy upon thee." "And upon thee also!" was the pert and ready answer by Aisha.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Battle_of_Bassorah (3669 words)

	Name the battle quiz -- free game
		The greatest tank battle of the Second World War, it would be the last time the famed Panzer Divisions would be used in a strategically offensive role.
		In this battle of the Wars of Independence, the British sallying out of Boston may have won the day and taken the field, but this was a Pyrrhic victory, with the soon not-to-be-anymore colonials inflicting 3 times the number of casualties they sustained themselves.
		This was the highwater mark of the Muslim incursions in France; after this battle they were soon forced back to the other side of the Pyrenees...
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=64631 (559 words)

	Turkish Empire
		The battle of Kossovo (1389) gave him Servia.
		The Young Turks had to flee the capital, but immediately the troops of Salonica, Monastir, and Adrianople consolidated and marched against Constantinople and laid siege to it (17 April, 1909).
		Negotiations continued for six days; finally at the moment when the massacre of the Christians seemed imminent, the Salonican troops entered Constantinople, and after a short battle became masters of the place.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/turkish_empire.html (2677 words)

	Ockley, History of the Saracens. Ommiades
		This dynasty is called the dynasty of the Ommiades, from the caliph Moawiyah or Ommia, the first of the house, the son of Abu Sofian, the successor of Abu Talet, in the principality of Mecca.
		When Ziyad first came to Cufah, having left Bassorah to the care of Samrah, in his inaugural address he told the Cufians, that he once had thoughts of bringing along with him two thousand of his guards, but recollecting that they were honest men, he had brought no other attendance but only his own family.
		The governor of Medina was Walid the son of Otbah; of Cufah, Nooman the son of Bashir; of Bassorah, Obeidollah the son of Ziyad; of Mecca, Abdallah Amrou.
	www.dinsdoc.com /ockley-1-4.htm (16272 words)

	Washington Irving, Mohammed and His Successors
		Henda incites Abu Sofian and the Koreishites to revenge the death of her relations slain in the battle of Beder.—The Koreishites sally forth, followed by Henda and her female companions.—Battle of Ohod.—Ferocious triumph of Henda.—Mohammed consoles himself by marrying Hend, the daughter of Omeya.
		It was not one drawn battle, but a succession of conflicts, extending through several days, beginning at early dawn, but ceasing toward noon, when the intolerable heat of the sun obliged both armies to desist, and seek the shade of their tents.
		The battle was severe; the imperial fleet dispersed, and the emperor escaped by dint of sails and oars.
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	Magical Updates - Chaos Adrift Update / FAQ
		They craved the aestheticsm of magical battle and fairly soon they were an equal amount of their numbers allied with the Necromancing clerics.
		Mefzun was freed from his curse in a great battle with the Hixjiaaj in which they finally destroyed him at the end of the Chaos Adrift timeline.
		In the final battle in the capital, Heyji attempted to kidnap or murder (nobody ever figured out what his intentions were) the princess K'do and was stopped by a young but loyal archmage that destroyed himself to destroy Heyji.
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		It is human dignity which is involved, the honour of 80% of mankind, who are currently categorized under the label of "Third World." This is the reason why the next battle will be in defense of the diversity of human cultures and values.
		As for us, another type of battle is awaiting us ahead: the battle for democracy, the building up of a civil society on the basis of social justice, the struggle against illiteracy and massive mobilization for the development of human resources and the advancement of scientific and technological research.
		I believe that the fight for democracy is a battle for the future of the Arab world.
	www.elmandjra.org /ENGL07.htm (1951 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr
		He also accompanied his father and Aysha into battle against Ali at the Battle of Bassorah.
		During Umar's caliphate, he was arguing with Abdullah ibn Abbas for the ban of temporary marriage.
		After the death of Husayn bin Ali at the Battle of Karbela, Ibn Zubayr returned to the Hejaz where he declared himself the righteous caliph, and he began building support.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abd_Allah_ibn_Zubayr (472 words)

	Burton Nights
		For all this, he was a miscreant in creed ascribing to Allah partnership and adoring idols, instead of the Lord of worship; and all his troops were of images fain in lieu of the All-knowing Sovereign.
		But, if we reach Bassorah in safety, I will look you out two girls of the best of the damsels of Bassorah and demand them for you in marriage and pay the dower of my own monies and make one wedding and we will all three go into our brides on the same night.
		So rule you at Bassorah in my absence and in my presence, and your commandments shall be effectual; but look that ye fear Allah in your ordinances and beware of oppression, which if it endure depopulateth; and apply yourselves to justice, for justice, if it be prolonged, peopleth a land.
	www.mythfolklore.net /1001nights/burton/abdullah_brothers.htm (8055 words)

	Lessons For Life
		Flash back to Ezekiel 38, a battle is described where Gog (the leader) and Magog (a group of people ~ perhaps his soldiers) plan to attack a peaceful and unsuspecting city.
		Their armies are slaughtered and the call goes out to the birds of the world to assemble and gorge themselves on kings, generals, slaves and horses--by the time this battle is over, monarchs and peasants alike are all going to look pretty much the same--like a big buffet.
		Now that the Battle of Armageddon is over you may be thinking that we’ve come to the end of our story… but we haven’t.
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		On that very day of June 1st, the historic nationalization decision, as promised and vowed by the Ba’ath was born according to a studied plan based on a challenging political, economical and security ground experienced by al Ba’ath and the people of Iraq who together made this national, patriotic and progressive achievement possible.
		The Iraqi oil nationalization battle endured by the Ba’ath according to its pan Arab and socialist ideology, and putting into practice its social, economic and defense policies, asserting its strategic goals drawn on the long term, was an ongoing battle of challenges with the backward regressive Arab sectarianism, international imperialism, and racist Zionism.
		This is a truth which cannot be denied with the battle still going on, and the American Imperialism organized invasion against Iraq, and the armed looting of its oil with the complicity and support of the regressive religious forces and Arab regressive regimes and Zionist "Israel".
	www.indymedia.org /it/2004/05/853579.shtml (2542 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The epochs in the intellectual life of an ancient people are not comparable to geological epochs, for instance, because the forces at work were directed by human wills, whether in the interests of progress or otherwise.
		The battle of creeds has ever been a battle of minds.
		It should be recognized, therefore, that the human element bulks as prominently in the drama of Babylon's religious history as does the prince of Denmark in the play of Hamlet.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba06.htm (4743 words)

	The Birds of Paradise in the Arabian Nights, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Hasan is a young goldsmith of El Basrah (Bassorah) who was a good workman, and remarkable for his grace of figure and beauty of countenance.
		The clues are, that it was about a week's camel journey from the coast where the Magian landed after his six months' voyage from Bassorah; that it was also reached directly overland from Bassorah, and also, as we learn later, from Baghdad.
		But the chief correspondence is in the descriptions of this region by both ancient and modern writers, and the consideration that, for a thousand miles south-east and east of it, there extend countries whose characteristics are more or less arid uplands, varied by a few fertile valleys and vast extents of absolute desert.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S615.htm (5014 words)

	Battle of Bassorah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Having completed her preparations for the battle, Aisha unsuccessfully tried to convince one of the previous wives of Muhammad, Umm Salama, to side with her.
		Umm Salama instead tried, and almost succeeded in convincing Aisha to abandon her plan; but Zubayr's son Ibn Zubair persuaded her to proceed.
		According to prominent Islamic scholar and historian Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Ali had employed Jats to guard Basra treasury during the Battle of Jamal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Bassorah (4141 words)

	Evening and Morning Star Volume 1, Number 5
		In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
		They entered those where perhaps there remained only one person languishing with the malady, forced open the drawers and closets, and took away whatever they found most precious, often carrying their guilt to the length of delivering themselves from an opportune witness who otherwise had but a few moments to live.
		Intelligence was received at Falmouth on the 24th of July that a battle had been fought on the 23d, near Oporto, which terminated in the total defeat of Don Miguel's forces.
	www.centerplace.org /history/ems/v1n05.htm (10613 words)

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		After some time he had wasted all his ready money, so he sold all his father's lands and houses and played the wastrel until there remained in his hand nothing, neither little nor muchel, nor was one of his comrades left who knew him.
		By the munificence, O my lady, an thou toldest the Commander of the Faithful of her, he would slay her husband and take her from him, for her like is not to be found among women.
		I asked of her mate and they told me that he is a merchant Hasan of Bassorah hight.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/81001107.txt (9612 words)

	RESISTANCE ET LIBERATION DE L'IRAK
		Today are used in the battle the heavy weapons of the Iraqi Army, such as strategic missiles.
		The Battle of Falloudja is an extraordinary example of the capacities of our people in Iraq and of its Armed Forces.
		They discover their mission of safeguarding the Honour of the fatherland and of the Arab weapons, by inflicting each time bigger setbacks to the most powerful army of the World, and this in spite of its absolute superiority, pushing the American planetary imperialistic project at the edge of collapse and bankruptcy.
	comitesirak.free.fr /baath/baath-050106-en.htm (595 words)

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		They tell that Al-Hajjáj [FN#118] once bade the Chief of Police go his rounds about Bassorah city by night, and whomsoever he found abroad after supper-tide that he should smite his neck.
		So he went round one night of the nights and came upon three youths swaying and staggering from side to side, and on them signs of wine-bibbing.
		So he marvelled at their eloquent readiness of speech and said to the men of his assembly, “Teach your sons the rhetorical use of Arabic: [FN#123] for, by Allah, but for their ready wit, I had smitten off their heads!”
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Sn_1/11tale3.htm (148 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oriental Study and Research
		The exploration work for the British Museum was continued by Hormuzd Rassam, who, besides other valuable treasures found in various parts of Babylonia, unearthed in the expedition of 1887-82 the great bronze doors with the inscriptions of Shalmaneser II (859-26
		About the same time M. de Sarzec, French consul at Bassorah in Southern Babylonia, excavated the very ancient Telloh statues which were acquired by the French Government for the Museum of the Louvre.
		This great code, which illustrates in many respects the Pentateuchal Law, was first translated by Father Scheil, the eminent Dominican scholar who was the Assyriologist of the expedition ("Textes Elamitiques-Sémitiques", Paris, 1902), and later into German by Dr. Hugo Winckler of Berlin, into English by Dr. Johns and into Italian by Rev. Dr.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11302c.htm (2789 words)

	Arabian Night's comic (27 Scans) - MTG Salvation Forums
		Naration: The Bazaar of Bassorah in the country of Rabiah.
		Nartion: The mosk quarter of the city of Bassorah.
		Raghib thought both Hajjaj and the blue Taysir where killed in that battle, but Dervish Taysir can feel the other Taysir is still somewhere in the castle.
	forums.mtgsalvation.com /showthread.php?t=33389 (3183 words)

	Arabian Nights: Tale 155 - Hasan of Bassorah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There was once of days of yore and in ages and times long gone before, a merchant, who dwelt in the land of Bassorah and who owned two sons and wealth galore.
		But in due time Allah, the All-hearing the All-knowing, decreed that he should be admitted to the mercy of the Most High; so he died, and his two sons laid him out and buried him, after which they divided his gardens and estates equally between them and of his portion each one opened a shop.
		Moreover, I followed her from the bath to her own house and found it to be that of the Wazir, with the two gates, one opening on the river and the other on the land.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Vol_8/tale155.htm (11123 words)

	Command and Conquer DEN - games by Westwood & EALA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		[by UK-CYCLOPS] This is a "no frills" 4-player battle map with virtually unlimited money supplies, lots of oil derricks, goodie crates, and refineries.
		Unique layout adds lots of interest and should offer up some fun games.
		Basically a "no frills" battle map for close quarters combat.
	www.cncden.com /genmaps_multiplay0000001.shtml (685 words)

	appendix e
		Other satellites photographed by Voyager do not bear their discoverer's name on a feature because of another IAU constraint that duplication of names should be avoided: Cassini discovered Tethys, Dione, and Rhea as well as Iapetus, and Herschel discovered Enceladus as well as Mimas.
		Instead, prominent features are named for important places in the appropriate epics or legends: Ithaca (home of Odysseus), Latium (Aeneas' promised land), Kun Lun (Chinese promised land) Chasma, and Bassorah Fossae (town from which Sindbad left on his third voyage) on Tethys, Dione, Rhea, and Enceladus, respectively.
		Because the cultures of the East have not produced an epic of worldwide renown, a majority of the features on Rhea were assigned names from far-Eastern legends and myths.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-474/appe.htm (2332 words)

	Amazon.com: "quoth the fisherman": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Allah, slay me not ; never again will I gainsay thee in word nor sin against thee in deed." t Quoth the Fisherman, " O Mrid,2 diddest thou say, Sulayman the Apostle of Allah ; and Sulayman is dead some thousand and eight...
		Key Phrases in this book: Alf Laylah, Commander of the Faithful, King Shahryar, King Yunan, Shah Zaman, Hasan of Bassorah, exceeding weeping, exceeding marvel, befal thee, thou tomb, ground fainting, fifty dinars (See more)
		See all pages with references to quoth the fisherman.
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