Basra International Hotel

The Basra International Hotel (Arabic: فندق البصرة الدولي) is a hotel on Shatt al-Arab bank in Al Ashar District, in Basrah, Iraq.

Basra International Hotel
فندق البصرة الدولي
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General information
LocationBasra Iraq
Coordinates30°31′04″N 47°50′37″E / 30.517901237189797°N 47.84356000675982°E / 30.517901237189797; 47.84356000675982
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Number of restaurants2
Website
http://www.basrainternationalhotel.com/
Basra International Hotel seen from the Shatt al-Arab, 2016
Courtyard of the Basra International Hotel, 2017

The hotel was built in 1981 as the Basrah Sheraton Hotel & Casino.[1] Sheraton severed ties with the hotel in 1991, at the time of the Gulf War, but the hotel continued using the name without permission for the next two decades until it closed after the Iraq War. It was renovated and reopened in 2010 under its current name.

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  1. ^ See Archived June 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

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