The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Amara
a city in southeast Iraq on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of Amara Province. Population in 1965, 65,000. Amara is a highway junction and the processing center for a large agricultural area, handling rice, dates, and grains.
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