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2 unusual facts about Bushehr


Abbasi, Iran

Abbasi, Bushehr, a village in Ganaveh County, Bushehr Province, Iran

Battle of Khushab

The Battle of Khushab (Battle of Khoosh-Ab) took place on 7 February 1857 and was the largest single engagement of the Anglo-Persian War.


2013 Bushehr earthquake

The 2013 Bushehr earthquake was a magnitude 6.3 Iranian province of Bushehr, near the city of Khvormuj and the towns of Kaki and Shonbeh.

2013 Iran earthquake

2013 Bushehr earthquake, a magnitude 6.3 Mw earthquake that struck the Iranian province of Bushehr, near the city of Khvormuj and the towns of Kaki and Shonbeh on April 9, 2013.

Barang

Barang-e Bozorg ("Greater Barang"), a village in Bushehr Province, Iran

Barang-e Kuchak ("Lesser Barang"), a village in Bushehr Province, Iran

Battle of Khushab

Having taken Borazjan without a fight, the British expeditionary army under Sir James Outram was in the process of withdrawing to Bushehr when it was ambushed by a far larger Persian force under Khanlar Mirza, drawn up in battle order to its rear.

Bushehr Province

Sadeq Chubak and Najaf Daryabandari are among the most prominent writers in literature of Bushehr.

After Nadir's death, the Dutch continued to have good commercial relations in Bushehr, until the British made their debut in Bushehr in 1763 by a contract they signed with Karim Khan of the Zand dynasty.

Davvas

Its inhabitants are mostly those migrating from other cities and towns near Bushehr including, Borazjan, Khormooj, Ahram, etc.

Sadeq Chubak, the leading Iranian short story writer who is originally from Bushehr, set the setting of his best novel called Tangsir in this district of Bushehr.

The famous State-run university in Bushehr called Persian Gulf University is near this district of Bushehr.

Nakhl

Nakhl-e Ghanem, a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Kangan County, Bushehr Province, Iran

Rais Ali Delvari

The uprising of people of Tangestan prolonged nearly for 7 years in which Daliran Tangestan (the brave of Tangestan) pursued two goals: guarding Bushehr, Dashtestan and Tangestan as their habitat and preventing the foreign forces from infiltrating the country and securing the independence of the country.

Sadeq Chubak

The setting of this story is Davvas (also دواس) inhabitted mostly by people migrating from other parts of Bushehr province including Tangestan.

Salim bin Thuwaini, Sultan of Muscat and Oman

Hence the British Political Resident General in the Gulf at Bushehr, Colonel Lewis Pelly, fiercely opposed the recognition of Salim whom he feared was to stop foreign interference and forge a peace deal with the Wahhabis.


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