أوضاع البصرة التجارية 1668- 1775م

Abstract EN

Due to the strategic geographic location of Basra, which made it an important commercial center for goods from different parts of the world, and it has important internal trade routes, including the Baghdad-Basra river road that supplies the countries of the Arabian Gulf, the Arabian Peninsula and India, as well as the Basra-Hilla riverway as well.

Trade was not limited to internal trade only, but relied on foreign trade as it reached various countries of the world.

It had commercial relations with European companies that were the basis for the prosperity of their trade, including the English, Dutch and French trade.

Taxes are important to the revenues of Basra Province, which was under the Ottoman occupation, so they imposed taxes and fees on most of the goods and products entering and leaving Basra, as well as knowing the money that merchants used to trade in their commercial transactions, but there are factors that affected trade in Basra due to political instability and lack of interest in transportation methods as well.

On the spread of diseases and epidemics.