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n. - A city of central Iraq south of Baghdad.

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  • Al-Hosayn, on the other hand, was slain and decapitated at Kerbela.
  • Kerbela, some twenty odd miles west of the Euphrates and the site of ancient Babylon.
  • Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.
  • Suddenly from out the city of Ur (Kerbela), near the ancient mouth of the Euphrates, appears a traveller.
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