Plural: Abadans
Iranian oil port on the east side of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway; population (1986) 294,000. Abadan is the chief refinery and shipping center for Iran's oil industry, nationalized 1951. This measure was the beginning of the worldwide movement by oil-producing countries to assume control of profits from their own resources.
abaci · abacist · aback · abaction · abactor · abacus · abacuses · Abadan · A bad apology is better than none. · Abaddon · a bad egg · A bad excuse is better than none. · a bad experience · a bad grade · a bad quarter of an hour · A bad workman blames his tools. · abaft · abaft the beam · a bag of nerves
Grad i ostrvo u Iranu.