Dowraq

Dawraq lay in the lowlands of southern Khuzestan, on a route between the Persian Gulf and the interior. Its district was known as Dawraqestan, and the town's history reached back before Islam. In the sixteenth century members of the Bani Tamim held Dawraq until the Musha'sha' governor Sayyid Mubarak expelled them. After Nader Shah's death in 1747, the Banu Kaab displaced the Afshars, and Sheikh Salman founded Fallahiya south of the older town.