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Qurain City () is an
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in
Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
, located in the
Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate ( ar, محافظة مبارك الكبير Muḥāfaẓat Mubārak al-Kabīr) is one of the governorates of Kuwait which mainly houses residential areas of Kuwait City. It was formed in 2000 when the Hawalli Gov ...
. The name is also an older name of the state of Kuwait. The name "Qurain" itself means elevated land or hill.


History


Significance during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

The suburb is renowned for three neighboring villas of historical significance. They are what make up Al-Qurain Martyrs' Museum. On February 24, 1991, 19 young Kuwaiti men from the "Messila" resistance group had armed themselves and were preparing a strike against the invading Iraqi army. While the men were discussing their plan, an Iraqi patrol unit was in the area and eventually checked on one of the three houses in which the resistance group congregated. The two sides then engaged in a ten-hour battle. Heavily outnumbered and underarmed, the Kuwaiti men were eventually defeated by Iraqi tanks and soldiers. Of the nineteen men, seven were severely wounded and twelve died. The symbolic thing about this house is that it represented a wide spectrum of Kuwaiti people from different sects and ancestral backgrounds. Districts of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate Populated places in Kuwait {{Kuwait-geo-stub