Cities, Towns and Villages in Al Anbar Governorate - Anah, Anbar, Fallujah, Ramadi, Haditha, Akashat, Al-Qa'im, Al-Karmah, Nukhayb, AR Rutba (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 102. Not illustrated. Chapters: Anah, Anbar, Fallujah, Ramadi, Haditha, Akashat, Al-Qa'im, Al-Karmah, Nukhayb, Ar Rutba, Zaidon, H t, Haqlaniyah, Ar Rahaliyah, Husaybah, Khan Al Baghdadi, Saqlawiyah, Ubaydi, Al Khaldiya, Iraq, Amiriyah Fallujah, Habbaniyah, Al-Kar bilah, Rawa, Trebil, Barwanah, Kabisa, Al Ubaidi, Al Waleed, Al Karblah, Tarbil, Husaibah Al Sharqiah. Excerpt: Fallujah - The region has been inhabited for many millennia. There is evidence that the area surrounding Fallujah was inhabited in Babylonian times. The etymology of the town's name is in some doubt, but one theory is that its Syriac name, Pallgutha, is derived from the word division or "canal regulator" since it was the location where the water of the Euphrates River divided into a canal. Classical authors cited the name as "Pallacottas." The name in Aramaic is Pumbedita, while the city's name in Arabic means "arable land." The region of Fallujah was a part of the Sassanid Persian province of Anbar. The word anbar is Persian and means "warehouse." Known as Firuz Shapur or Perisapora during the Sassanian Era, it was one the main commercial center of the Lakhmid Kingdom. One mile north of Fallujah lie extensive ruins which are identified with the town of Anbar. Anbar was located at the confluence of the Euphrates River with the King's Canal, today the Saqlawiyah Canal, known in Early Islamic times as the Nahr 'Isa and in ancient times as Nahr Malka. Subsequent shifts in the Euphrates River channel have caused it to follow the course of the ancient Pallacottas canal. The town at this site in Jewish sources was known as Nehardea and was the primary center of Babylonian Jewry until its destruction by the Palmyran ruler Odenathus in 259. The Medieval Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela in 1164 visited "el-Anbar which is Pumbeditha in Nehardea" and said it had 3000...