Ramadi

Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي‎; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a ceety in central Iraq, aboot 110 kilometer (68 mi) wast o Baghdad. It is the caipital o the Anbar Province. The ceety ootstretched tae a distance o mair nor 60 kilometers on the Euphrates, the lairgest ceety in Al-Anbar.

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

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 thare are aboot 700,000 indwallers. Awtho thare wis a lairge Jewish community intae the twintiet century, in the 21st century aw o the indwallers 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 gie the Ottomans a focal pynt 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 focht wha wis left o the Ottoman forces thare. Sir Maude dee'd suin efter Ramadi wis 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 pynt o resistance tae the U.S. occupation o Iraq atween 2003 an 2006.

See an aw

• Leet o places in Iraq
• Dulaim Tribe

Freemit airtins

• Iraq Image - Ramadi Satellite Observation Archived 2013-01-03 at Archive.today