Zoṭṭ

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uprising in Basra

  • Basra: oil terminal
    In Basra

    The uprisings continued: the Zoṭṭ, an Indian people, rose up in 820–835; the Zanj, African blacks brought into Mesopotamia for agricultural slave labour, rebelled about 869–883 (see Zanj rebellion). The Qarmatians, an extremist Muslim sect, invaded and devastated Basra in 923, and thereafter the city declined, overshadowed by the…

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