Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

Abadan Refinery is one of the largest in the world.

The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".

Earlier, the classical geographer, Ptolemy notes " Apphana " as an island off the mouth of the Tigris ( which is, where the modern Island of Abadan is located ).

There is an international airport in Abadan.

The climate in Abadan is arid and similar to Baghdad's, but slightly hotter due to Abadan's lower latitude.

Khorramshahr is a port city located approximately north of Abadan.

However, there is absolutely no mention of such a place in the geographical records, while there are an ample mentions of the port of Abadan nearby.

The Faw Peninsula (; also transliterated as Fao or Fawr ) is a marshy region adjoining the Persian Gulf in the extreme southeast of Iraq, between and to the southeast of the cities of Basra ( Iraq ) and Abadan ( Iran ).

Ahvaz located 120 km north-east of Abadan and is accessible via following routes in addition of a single runway airport:

The Khuzestan Plain is the relatively flat region of Iran where the Khuzestan province and the cities of Ahvaz, Susa and Abadan are located.

The city's port is one of the most important in Iran, exporting gas and refinery products from Abadan.

Minoo Island is an Iranian island in the Khuzestan province ( located in Persian Gulf ), in southwestern Iran and is close to the city of Abadan.

Ahmadreza Abedzadeh (, born May 25, 1966 in Abadan ) is a retired Iranian football goalkeeper.

The 1937 treaty recognized the Iranian-Iraqi border as along the low-water mark on the eastern side of the Shatt al-Arab except at Abadan and Khorramshahr where the frontier ran along the thalweg ( the deep water line ) which gave Iraq control of almost the entire waterway ; provided that all ships using the Shatt al-Arab fly the Iraqi flag and have an Iraqi pilot, and required Iran to pay tolls to Iraq whenever its ships used the Shatt al-Arab.

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

During World War II, Abadan was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States.

The Iranian cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr and the Iraqi city and major port of Basra are situated along this river.

At that time they were working at port cities Bushehr, Khorramshahr, Bandar Abbas and major oil refineries such as Abadan and Masjed Soleiman in the province of Khuzestan, the latter area even boasting a football league.

Other major urban centres such as Abadan and Ahvaz were also left in ruins, though nowhere nearly as bad as Khorramshahr.

Due to its lack of rail connection to the interior of the country and its shallow anchorage, it has lost its position as the primary port of Persia / Iran, to other ports such as Abadan, Khorramshahr, and as of late, to the deep water ports such as Bandar Abbas and Chabahar port complex.

To honor the 100th anniversary of the refining of oil in Abadan, city officials are planning an " oil museum.

The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the Iranian assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( AIOC ) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan ( see Abadan Refinery ).

This led to the Abadan Crisis where foreign countries refused to take Iranian oil under British pressure and the Abadan refinery was closed.

Among the founder-members were Hassan Nezam ( 1922 – 1958 ), the principal founder, who was killed in Tehran in 1958 by SAVAK ( this extraordinary activist was also a leading regional figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, Khuzestan province, under the name Hassan Dorood ); Erik Mansoorian, who died in Abadan after returning to Iran in 1964 ; Hassan M. Saleh ( 1926 – 2000 ), who, from the early 1960s, was in a state of a chronic mental dysfunction as a result of severe torture ; Ali Madan ( 1932 – 1995 ); Ahmed al-Thawadi, “ Saif Bin Ali ” ( 1937 – 2006 ); and Ali Dwaigher ( born 1930 ).

Politically, Abadan was often the subject of dispute between the nearby states ; in 1847, Persia acquired it, in which state Abadan has remained since.

From the 17th century onward, the island of Abadan was part of the lands of the Arab Ka ' ab ( Bani Kaab ) tribe.

Ruins of a building in Abadan.

Abadan had suffered serious damages during Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), including Saddam's deadly chemical weapons.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

The local Abadan police had taken notice, and became suspicious of Hossein Takbali-zadeh and his accomplices, and had started following the arsonists as they were entering Cinema Rex.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

For 18 months Abadan was besieged, but never captured, by Iraqi forces.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

The Abadan Institute of Technology was established in Abadan in 1939.

The 1937 treaty recognized the Iran-Iraq border to be along the low-water mark on the eastern side of the Shatt, except at Abadan and Khorramshahr, where the frontier ran along the the deep water line ( thalweg ), giving Iraq control of most of waterway.

* The Ottoman Empire cedes Abadan Island to the Persian Empire.

California is too far, he thought.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.

One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??