Ramadi
Ramadi Arabic: الرمادي Ar-Ramādī | |
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  Ramadi Ramadi's location inside Iraq | |
| Coordinates: 33°25′11″N 43°18′45″E / 33.41972°N 43.31250°E | |
| Kintra | Iraq |
| Province | Anbar Province |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
| • Total | 483,209 |
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
[eedit | eedit soorce]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
[eedit | eedit soorce]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.
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.
Ramadi wis a focal pynt o resistance tae the U.S. occupation o Iraq atween 2003 an 2006.
See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Web[deid airtin]
- ↑ http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htm[[jj[deid airtin]]].
- ↑ [1][deid airtin] UN Data. Retrieved 2003
- ↑ [2][deid airtin] UN Data. Retrieved 2004
- ↑ According to the former regime
- ↑ Dulaim
- ↑ "Multi-National Force Iraq - Al-Anbar". Archived frae the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 22 Mairch 2012.
- ↑ 1[deid airtin]
- ↑ The anthropology of Iraq, Henry Field, and Richard A. (Richard Arthur) Martin, Field Museum, 1940, p. 17.
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- Iraq Image - Ramadi Satellite Observation Archived 2013-01-03 at Archive.today
Coordinates: 33°25′N 43°18′E / 33.417°N 43.300°E
