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==Etymology== [[File:AMH-5342-NA View of Basra and 'Gordelaan' castle.jpg|thumb|View of Basra in {{circa|1695}}, by Dutch cartographer [[Isaak de Graaf]]|left]] The city has had many names throughout history, Basrah being the most common. In Arabic, the word ''baṣrah'' means "the overwatcher", which may have been an allusion to the city's origin as an Arab military base against the [[Sassanids]]. Others have argued that the name is derived from the [[Aramaic]] word ''basratha'', meaning "place of huts, settlement".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1ZQ8LpzOncC&q=basra+name&pg=PA9 |title=Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra |first=Thabit |last=Abdullah |date=1 January 2001 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9780791448083 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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