Ramadi

Ramadi Arabic: الرمادي‎ Ar-Ramādī
Ramadi Mosque
Ramadi Ramadi's location inside Iraq
Coordinates: 33°25′11″N 43°18′45″E
Kintra	Iraq
Province	Anbar Province
Indwallers (2004)
- Tot	483,209

Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي‎; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a ceety in central Iraq, aboot 110 kilometers (68 mi) wast o Baghdad. It is the caipital o the Anbar Province. The ceety ootstretched tae a distance o mair than 60 kilometers on the Euphrates, the largest ceety in Al-Anbar.

Population

Ramadi's population haes been statit as 444,582 accordin tae UN data frae 2003. an 483,209 accordin tae UN frae 2004.
Housomeivver, accordin tae the umwhile regime there are aboot 700,000 inhabitants. Although there wis a lairge Jewish community intae the twintiet century, in the 21st century aw o the inhabitants o the ceety are Sunni Muslims frae the Dulaim tribe.

History

Ramadi is locatit in a fertile, irrigatit, alluvial plain, athin Iraq's Sunni Triangle. It wis foondit in 1869 unner the Ottoman Empire. The main purpose o the ceety wis tae give the Ottomans a focal point tae communicate an control the Dulaim tribe o the region.

Further information: Battle o Ramadi (1917)

Durin the Mesopotamie Campaign o Warld War I, Breetish forces unner Lieutenant General Frederick Stanley Maude teuk Ramadi. In November 1917, Breetish forces fought wha wis left o the Ottoman forces there. Sir Maude dee'd soon after Ramadi was taken.

Durin the Anglo-Iraqi War durin Warld War II, Ramadi wis held bi a brigade-sized unit lyal tae Rashid Ali al-Gaylani.

Main airticle: Ramadi unner U.S. Military Occupation

Ramadi wis a focal point o resistance tae the U.S. occupation o Iraq atween 2003 an 2006.

See an aw

• Leet o places in Iraq
• Dulaim Tribe

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