Ali Al-Gharbi District

District in Maysan Governorate, Iraq

Ali Al-Gharbi District قضاء علي الغربي
District
Ali Al-Gharbi in Iraq
32°27′43″N 46°41′17″E / 32.46186°N 46.68794°E / 32.46186; 46.68794
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Maysan Governorate
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Ali Al-Gharbi (Arabic: قضاء علي الغربي) is a district of the Maysan Governorate in Iraq.

History

John Gordon Lorimer wrote in 1908 that the main town of Ali Al-Gharbi was inhabited by 2,000 people of different origins, mostly Shia Muslims and was a market town of the Banu Lam Arab tribe. It was one of the principal towns for trade with Iraqi Kurdistan and many Kurds from Iran would visit the town to 'satisfy their wants'. Lorimer moreover wrote that many Kurds had settled in the town.^[1]

Scholar Kamandâr stated that the main town was 90% Kurdish from the Kordali tribe prior to the Arabization policies of Ba'athist Iraq.^[2]

References

^ Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 'Omān, and Central Arabia. India: Superintendent Government Print. 1908. p. 798.
^ Fattah, Ismaïl Kamandâr (2000). Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. p. 32.