Al-Qurnah
Sign in to saveAl-Qurnah (Kurnah or Qurna, meaning connection/joint in Arabic) is a town in southern Iraq about 74 km northwest of Basra, that lies within the conglomeration of Nahairat. Qurna is located at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to form the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Local folklore holds Qurnah to have been the original site of biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, and location of the Tree of Knowledge.
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Place details
- Locality
- القرنة
- Region
- محافظة البصرة
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 134,174
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Al-Qurnah
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Adam tree park1.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Al-Qurnah on the Tigris and Euphrates
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate()
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Basra Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Al-Qurna District
- Settlement.established_title
- 303 BC
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2018
- Settlement.population_total
- 286073
- Settlement.population_note
- District total
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT +3
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- GMT +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Al-Qurna District
- Population
- 126438
- Elevation
- 4
- Time zone
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Image
- A farm in the town of Qurna 1.jpg
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- Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
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- Al-Qurnah
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Al-Qurnah (Kurnah or Qurna, meaning connection/joint in Arabic) is a town in southern Iraq about 74 km northwest of Basra, that lies within the conglomeration of Nahairat. Qurna is located at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to form the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Local folklore holds Qurnah to have been the original site of biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, and location of the Tree of Knowledge.
==History== left|thumb|View of Al-Qurnah in 1885 (Ridpath) Local folklore holds Qurnah to have been the site of the Garden of Eden and the location of a city built by general Seleucus Nicator I. An ancient tree is celebrated locally and shown to the tourists as the actual Tree of Knowledge of the Bible. The tree died some time ago and replacement trees were planted. The tomb of Ezra is also described to be nearby and found further upstream on the river Tigris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Qurnah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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