Hit

Hit, also spelled Heet, ancient name Is, is an Iraqi town in Al-Anbar province. Hit lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital. On the Euphrates River, Hīt is a small walled town built on two mounds on the web site of the historical city of Is. In historic times, the town was regarded for its bitumen wells, which had been used as a long way again as three,000 years in the past, to encompass building of Babylon and for caulking boats. Hit additionally have become a frontier fortress for Assyria. N

ow, Hīt is a marketplace for agricultural produce and oil pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea cross the Euphrates there. It was appeared as the head of navigation at the river earlier than the decline in river site visitors. In October 2014, the city had fallen to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, however became recaptured after a navy offensive via the Iraqi Army in April 2016.