az-Zubayr

Az Zubayr is a town in and the capital of Al-Zubair District, part of the Basra Governorate of Iraq. The city is just south of Basra. The call can also refer to the old Emirate of Zubair. The call is likewise occasionally written Al Zubayr, Al Zubair, Az Zubair, Zubair, Zoubair, El Zubair, or Zobier. The town changed into named al-Zubair due to the fact one of the Sahaba of the Prophet Muhammad, Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, changed into buried there.

During the Ottoman times, the city changed into a self-ruling emirate dominated by means of an Emir from Najdi households, which include Al Zuhair, Al Meshary, and Al Ibrahim families. Like different Emirates beneath the Ottoman Empire, the Emirate of Zubair used to pay dues and receive safety from the Ottomans. In the nineteenth century, the city of Zubair witnessed fantastically huge migrations from Najd. Up till the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, the metropolis was predominantly populated via people of Najdi origin. Now just a few families remain of the antique inhabitants.