Al-Kut
The siege of Kut Al Amara, also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Indian Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army.
The siege of Kut Al Amara, also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Indian Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo, during which many died. Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I". Ten months later, the British Indian Army, consisting almost entirely of newly recruited troops from Western India, conquered Kut, Baghdad and other regions in between in the fall of Baghdad.
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Worth seeing in and around Al-Kut
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Al-Kut Olympic Stadium
Al-Kut Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Al Kut, Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also has facilities for athletics.
1.1 km · stadium in Iraq · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al-Kut
- Airports
- Al Najaf (NJF), 145 km · Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 171 km · Basra (BSR), 279 km
- Najaf → Al-Kut149 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · $17–23
- Baghdad → Al-Kut161 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · $14–19
- Basra → Al-Kut293 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · $30–42
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No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Kut
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al-Kut. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Al-Kut
- Kutcity in eastern Iraq1.2 km
- Kut Districtdistrict in Wasit Governorate, Iraq5.5 km