Al-Ubulla

30°18′36″N 47°30′0″E / 30.31000°N 47.50000°E / 30.31000; 47.50000Al-Ubulla (Arabic: الأبلة), called Apologou (Greek: 'Απολόγου 'Εμπόριον) by the Greeks in the pre-Islamic period, was a port city at the head of the Persian Gulf east of Basra in present-day Iraq. In the medieval period, it served as Iraq's principal commercial port for trade with India.

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