Al-Hirah
Ghost town · Iraq
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.980, 44.390
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город
History
Al-Hira was an ancient city and a major metropolis located in Mesopotamia, in what is now south-central Iraq. It was the capital city of the Lakhmid kingdom, the major Arab client kingdom of the Sasanian Empire in pre-Islamic times, between the fourth and the seventh centuries. In Islamic times, it remained inhabited until the tenth century.