Ramadi

Ramadi

Arabic: الرمادي‎

Ar-Ramādī
Ramadi is located in Iraq
Ramadi
Ramadi
Ramadi's location inside Iraq
Coordinates: 33°25′11″N 43°18′45″E / 33.41972°N 43.31250°E / 33.41972; 43.31250
KintraIraq
ProvinceAnbar Province
Population
 (2004)[1]
 • Total483,209

Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي‎; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a ceety in central Iraq, aboot 110 kilometer (68 mi) wast o Baghdad. It is the caipital o the Anbar Province.[2] The ceety ootstretched tae a distance o mair nor 60 kilometers on the Euphrates, the lairgest ceety in Al-Anbar.

Population

Ramadi's population haes been statit as 444,582 accordin tae UN data frae 2003.[3] an 483,209 accordin tae UN frae 2004.[4]
Housomeivver, accordin tae the umwhile regime thare are aboot 700,000 indwallers.[5] Awtho thare wis a lairge Jewish community intae the twintiet century, in the 21st century aw o the indwallers o the ceety are Sunni Muslims frae the Dulaim tribe.[6][7][8]

History

Ramadi is locatit in a fertile, irrigatit, alluvial plain, athin Iraq's Sunni Triangle.[9] It wis foondit in 1869 unner the Ottoman Empire. The main purpose o the ceety wis tae gie the Ottomans a focal pynt tae communicate an control the Dulaim tribe o the region.

Further information: Battle o Ramadi (1917)

Durin the Mesopotamie Campaign o Warld War I, Breetish forces unner Lieutenant General Frederick Stanley Maude teuk Ramadi. In November 1917, Breetish forces focht wha wis left o the Ottoman forces thare. Sir Maude dee'd suin efter Ramadi wis taken.

Durin the Anglo-Iraqi War durin Warld War II, Ramadi wis held bi a brigade-sized unit lyal tae Rashid Ali al-Gaylani.

Main airticle: Ramadi unner U.S. Military Occupation

Ramadi wis a focal pynt o resistance tae the U.S. occupation o Iraq atween 2003 an 2006.

See an aw

  • Leet o places in Iraq
  • Dulaim Tribe

References

  1. ↑ Web[deid airtin]
  2. ↑ http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htm[[jj[deid airtin]]].
  3. ↑ [1][deid airtin] UN Data. Retrieved 2003
  4. ↑ [2][deid airtin] UN Data. Retrieved 2004
  5. ↑ According to the former regime
  6. ↑ Dulaim
  7. ↑ "Multi-National Force Iraq - Al-Anbar". Archived frae the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 22 Mairch 2012.
  8. ↑ 1[deid airtin]
  9. ↑ The anthropology of Iraq, Henry Field, and Richard A. (Richard Arthur) Martin, Field Museum, 1940, p. 17.

Freemit airtins

Coordinates: 33°25′N 43°18′E / 33.417°N 43.300°E / 33.417; 43.300

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