Shaibah
Sign in to saveShaibah () is the name of a small village and a site of a military airfield near Az Zubayr, south west of Basrah in Iraq. The area was the site of a battle with Turkish Forces during the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War.
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It sits within the topics Iraq War sites, Populated places in Basra Province and World War II sites in Iraq.
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- الشعيبة القديمة
- Region
- محافظة البصرة
- Country
- العراق
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- Iraq
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- Basra Governorate
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Shaibah () is the name of a small village and a site of a military airfield near Az Zubayr, south west of Basrah in Iraq. The area was the site of a battle with Turkish Forces during the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War.
It was the site of RAF Shaibah from 1920 until 1956 when it was then handed over to the Iraqi Air Force.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shaibah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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