Anah

Anah or Ana, formerly additionally called Anna, is an Iraqi metropolis at the Euphrates river, approximately halfway among the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the proper financial institution alongside a bend of the river simply earlier than it turns south towards Hit. The earliest references to Anah are probable determined in letters of the duration of Zimri-Lim of Mari. Under Hammurapi of Babylon the city ought to have fallen underneath Babylonian manage, being included inside the governorate of Suḫu. Later, the metropolis changed into underneath Assyrian rule.

At the beginning of the 8th century BC, Samas-resa-uṣur and his son Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur succeeded in growing an unbiased political entity, and known as themselves "governors of Suḫu and Mari". The land of Suḫu occupied a pretty widespread region on the Middle Euphrates, approximately from the vicinity close to Falluja inside the southeast to the place of Ḫindanu inside the northwest. Important proof for this era became recovered at some point of English and Iraqi salvage excavation campaigns at Sur Jurʿeh and at the island of ʿAna in the early 80s.