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Anah
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Anah or Ana (, ), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hīt.

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Place details

Locality
عانة
Region
محافظة الأنبار
Country
العراق
Population
27,000
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad

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Key facts

Settlement.postal_code_type
Postal code
Settlement.official_name
Anah
Settlement.image_skyline
عانة.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Anah landscape
Settlement.mapsize
500px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Iraq
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
left
Settlement.pushpin_relief
yes
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location within Iraq
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Al-Anbar
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.parts_type
Occupation
Settlement.parts_style
para
Settlement.leader_title
Mayor
Settlement.leader_name
Saad Awwad
Settlement.population_as_of
2018
Settlement.population_total
21,000

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • History
  • Middle Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • Middle Ages
  • Ottoman rule
  • Kingdom of Iraq
  • Climate
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Anah or Ana (, ), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hīt.

==Name== The town was called (d)Ha-na-at in cuneiform texts from the Old Babylonian period, A-na-at of the land Suhum by the scribes of Tukulti-Ninurta  BC, and An-at by the scribes of Assur-nasir-pal II in 879 BC. The name has been connected with the widely worshipped war goddess Anat. It was known as Anathō () to Isidore Charax and Anatha to Ammianus Marcellinus; early Arabic writers described it variously as ʾĀna or (as if plural) ʾĀnāt.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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