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MUHAMRAH (MOIAMMERAH)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 956 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MUHAMRAH (MOIAMMERAH) , a town of Persia, in the province of
Arabistan
 , in 3o 26' N., 48 11' E., on the Hafar canal, which joins the
Karun
  with the Shatt el Arab, and flows into the latter 40 M. above its mouth at Fao and about 20 M. below Basra. It has post and telegraph offices, and a
population
  of about 5000. With the opening of the
Karun
  river, as far as Ahvaz, to
international
  navigation in 1889, Muhamrah acquired greater importance, and its customs, which until then were leased to the
governor
  for 1500 per annum, rose considerably, and paid 8000 until taken over by the central customs department under Belgian officials in 1902. It is estimated that the value of the imports and exports into and from Muhamrah, excluding specie, is about 300,000 per annum, paying customs amounting to about 18,000. Until 1847, when it definitely became Persian territory in accordance with art. ii. of the treaty of Erzerum, Muhamrah was alternately claimed and occupied by Persia and Turkey, its ruler, an Arab sheikh, helping either
power
  as he found it convenient. Since then the
governor
  of the town andadjoining
district
  has been a sheikh of the K'ab or Chaab
Arabs
 , a powerful tribe of the Shi'ah branch of
Islam
 . At the close of the Anglo-Persian campaign in 1857 Muhamrah was taken by a British force.


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