Ali Al-Gharbi District

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Ali Al-Gharbi District
District
Ali Al-Gharbi in Iraq
Ali Al-Gharbi in Iraq
Country Iraq
GovernorateMaysan Governorate
Time zoneUTC+3 (AST)

Ali Al-Gharbi is a district of the Maysan Governorate in Iraq.

History[]

John Gordon Lorimer wrote in 1908 that the main town of Ali Al-Gharbi was inhabited by 2,000 people of different origins but mostly are Shia Muslims besides being the market town of Banu Lam Arab tribe, one of the principal towns for trade with Iraqi Kurdistan and was many Kurds from Persia would visit the town to 'satisfy their wants'. Lorimer moreover wrote that many Kurds had settled in the town.[1]

Scholar Kamandâr stated that the main town was 90% Kurdish from the Kordali tribe prior to the Arabization policies of Ba'athist Iraq.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 'Omān, and Central Arabia. India: Superintendent Government Print. 1908. p. 798.
  2. ^ Fattah, Ismaïl Kamandâr (2000). Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. p. 32.
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