Ahwaz
Americannoun
noun
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The Iraqi drive was aimed at three principal targets: the oil-refining center of Abadan, Khuzistan's capital of Ahwaz, and the important communications junction of Dezful, 150 miles north of Khorramshahr.
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In the foreign-dominated management compound at Ahwaz, for example, employees enjoyed air conditioning, swimming pools and modern bathrooms.
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Militarily, the fall of Susangerd would give the Iraqis control of a key highway leading to the provincial capital of Ahwaz, 30 miles to the southeast.
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The Iranians said they had counterattacked at Ahwaz, Susangerd and other points along the 500-mile front.
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Then the Turks and Arabs concerted a movement against the whole line stretching round from Ahwaz within the Persian frontier to Shaiba south-west of Basra.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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