Basra
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Basra (बसरा) is gotra of Jats. This gotra started from their ancestral people who came grom Basra. [1]
Distribution
In Gurdaspur district the Basra population is 858. [2]
Basra city, Iraq
Basra (Arabic: البصرة; BGN: Al Baṣrah) is the Third largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of 2,600,000 (2003), . It is the country's main port and the capital of the Basra Governorate. Baṣra played an important role in early Islamic history, and it was the first city built in Islam 14 A.H (After Hijra)
The present city was founded in 636 as an encampment and garrison for the Arab tribesmen constituting the armies of amir `Umar ibn al-Khattab, a few kilometres south of the present city, where a tell still marks its site. While defeating the Sassanid forces there, the Muslim commander Utba ibn Ghazwan first set up camp there on the site of an old Persian settlement called Vaheštābād Ardašīr, which was destroyed by the Arabs [3]. The name Al-Basrah, which in Arabic means "the over watching" or "the seeing everything", was given to it because of its role as a Military base against the Sassanid empire. Other sources however say its name originates from the Persian word Bas-rāh or Bassorāh meaning "where many ways come together"
References
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998 p. 271
- ↑ History and study of the Jats. By Professor B.S Dhillon.ISBN-10: 1895603021 or ISBN-13: 978-1895603026. 127
