Al-Ubulla
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- Iraq
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Al-Ubulla (), called Apologou () by the Greeks in the pre-Islamic period, was a port city at the head of the Persian Gulf east of Basra in present-day Iraq. In the medieval period, it served as Iraq's principal commercial port for trade with India.
==Location== thumb|upright=1.75|The city, shown as "al-Ubullah" northeast of Basra|al-Basrah, on a map of 9th-century Iraq ([[lower Mesopotamia)]]