Dhi Qar Province

Dhi Qar Govrenorate ذي قار Dhi Qar Province
—  Province  —
Coordinates: 31°14′N 46°19′E
Kintra	Iraq
Caipital	Nasiriyah
Aurie
- Tot	12,900 km2 (4,980.7 sq mi)
Indwallers (2003)
- Tot	1,700,000

Dhi Qar Province (Arabic: ذي قار Dhī Qār‎) is a province in soothren Iraq. The provincial caipital is Nasiriyah. Prior tae 1976 the province wis kent as Muntafiq Province. Dhi Qar wis the hertland o the auncient Iraqi ceevilization o Sumer an the ruins o Ur, Eridu, Lagash an Girsu are present here.

Auncient history

Further information: Sumer

Provincial Govrenment

• Govrenor: Talebalhassan
• Deputy Govrenor: Ahmed al-Sheik Taha [1]
• Provincial Cooncil Chairman (PCC): Ihsan Al-Taei [2]

Dhi Qar the day

Dhi Qar province includes the touns o al-Rifai, Qalat Sukkar, Ash Shatrah, al-Gharraf, Suq al-Shuyouk, Khamisiyah an al-Chibayish

Accordin tae Ron Suskind, in the mid 1990s the govrenor wis Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who later became polis chief o the kintra, an in 1999, director o the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

An Nasiriyah witnessed some o the hiviest fechtin an some o the stiffest resistance against invadin U.S. forces in 2003.

See an aw

• Sumer
• Cradle o ceevilization
• Battle o Dhi Qar

Freemit airtins

• Iraq Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit Reports, Maps an Assessments o Iraq's Provinces frae the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit