Muthanna Governorate ( Arabic : المثنى Al Muthannā ) or Al Muthanna Province , is a province in Iraq , named after the 7th-century Arab general al-Muthanna ibn Haritha . It is in the south of the country, bordering Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . The provincial capital is the city of Samawah . It has the highest poverty rate in Iraq, with a rate of 52%.
4-600: Before 1976 it was part of the Diwaniya Province , which included present-day Najaf Governorate and al-Qādisiyyah Governorate . Samawah is very close to the ancient Sumerian - Babylonian city of Uruk ( Aramaic : Erech ), which is possibly the source of the name Iraq . After the decline of Babylon following the Seleucid founding of Seleucia , Uruk became the largest city in southern Babylonia, and its name ( Erech ) came to replace Babili (Babylonia), as
8-834: Is named after the historical city of Al-Qādisiyah , the site of the Battle of al-Qādisiyah , where in 636 CE the Islamic Rashidun forces defeated the forces of the Sassanid Empire . The governorate is predominantly Shia Arab . It includes the Mesopotamian marsh of Hor Aldelmj. There is one public university known as the University of Qadisiyah , which was founded in the late 1980s, and includes colleges such as nursing, pharmacy, law, literature, education, agriculture, medicine and others. The student population
12-514: The Al-Diwaniyah Governorate ( Arabic : ٱلدِّيوَانِيَّة , ad-Dīwānīyah ), is one of the governorates of Iraq . It is in the southern part of the center of the country. The estimated population of the province is about a million and a half million people, according to the census of 2014. Its capital is Al Diwaniyah . Before 1976, it was part of the ad-Diwāniyah Governorate, along with al-Muthannā and Najaf . The province
16-503: The city long outlived the former capital, surviving into the 7th century AD. In February 1991 it was the location of one of the largest tank battles in history during the Persian Gulf War , the Battle of Norfolk . This Iraq geographical location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Diwaniya Province Al-Qadisiyah Governorate ( Arabic : القادسية , al-Qādisiyah ), also known as
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