Ramadi

Ramadi (; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a ceety in central Iraq, aboot  wast o Baghdad.  It is the caipital o the Anbar Province.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htmjj.
The ceety ootstretched tae a distance o mair nor 60 kilometers on the Euphrates, the lairgest ceety in Al-Anbar.

Population
Ramadi's population haes been statit as 444,582 accordin tae UN data frae 2003. UN Data. Retrieved 2003 an 483,209 accordin tae UN frae 2004. UN Data. Retrieved 2004 Housomeivver, accordin tae the umwhile regime thare are aboot 700,000 indwallers.According to the former regime
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.Dulaim1

History

Ramadi is locatit in a fertile, irrigatit, alluvial plain, athin Iraq's Sunni Triangle.The anthropology of Iraq, Henry Field, and Richard A. (Richard Arthur) Martin, Field Museum, 1940, p. 17.
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.

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.

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

References

 Freemit airtins 

 Iraq Image - Ramadi Satellite Observation 

Category:Populatit places alang the Silk Road
Category:Populatit places in the Anbar Province
Category:Populatit places on the Euphrates River
Category:Destrict caipitals o Iraq