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Al-Qādisiyyah

Ancient city · Iraq

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
31.583, 44.433
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Ираке

History

Al-Qādisiyyah is a historical city in southern Mesopotamia, southwest of al-Hillah and al-Kūfah in Iraq. It is most famous as the site of the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in c. 636, in which an Arab Muslim army defeated a larger Sasanian army.

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