Location
of Dilmun or Ikshawaku
Exact
location of Dilmun is highly debatable. One prime location could be Shatt-al-Arab
or Arrvand river some 200 km in length, formed by the confluence of the
Euphrates and Tigris in the town of Al-Qurnah. Then it get down to discharge
water at Persian gulf. Take a note, ancient geography was quite different from
what we see today. The Karun river, a tributary joins the waterways from the
Iranian side. Between Quarnah and Basarah is Dilmun, in the midst of marshes.
In Arabic
the word Basarah means "the over
watcher" over watcher of all 10 directions on his 10 ratha! The name is
derived from the Aramaic word Basaratha, and its modern Arabic corruption is
Basarah. Its meaning is place of huts or settlement. it could be reeds huts and small settlements at
marshy and wet land areas.
A number
of scholars have suggested that Dilmun originally designated the eastern
province of Saudi-Arabia. Eastern Arabia historically known as Al-Bahrain until
18 century. This region include south of Basarah along the Persian gulf coast
and that included the regions of Bahrain, Kuwait, Al-Hasa, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar, Southern Iraq and Northern Oman. They were fisher folks of
Arabian littoral.
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