September 1980
Capture of Khorramshahr
Iraq gets off to a succesful start to the war
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Khorramshahr in Iraq. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Iraq gets off to a succesful start to the war
Iraqi forces capture Khorramshahr
Iraq captures the Iranian port of Khorramshar
Provenance
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