ash-Shamiyah

Al-Shamiya is a metropolis in Al-Shamiya District, Al-Qadisiyyah Governorate, Iraq. It is more or less 147 km south of Baghdad on the Al-Shamiya department of the Euphrates. Settlement dates lower back to Sumerian instances, but the modern town became mounted in 1822 for the duration of the Ottoman generation, named "Hamidya" after Abdul Hamid II. It changed into renamed Al-Shamiya which means Levantine after the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq. The city's populace has grown quick, from 189,000 in 1997 to 230,974 in 2007 to an anticipated three hundred,000 in 2014.

The population has been homogeneously Shia for hundreds of years, and many descend from the Arab tribe of Nukha. It is placed in the fertile, irrigated, drained, and alluvial simple of the center Euphrates place. The place surrounding the city is high-quality for its plants, in particular rice, dates, and wheat. This is one of the best town. Thousands quantity of human beings are go to on this metropolis every 12 months.