Al-Hindiya or Hindiya ( ar, الهندية) is a city in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

on the Euphrates River. Al-Hindiya is located in the

Karbala Governorate Karbala Governorate ( ar, كربلاء ''Karbalāʾ'') is a governorate in central Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Karbala, a holy city for Shia Muslims for housing the shrine of the revered Imam Hussein. The population is majority ...

and is the seat of

Al-Hindiya District Al-Hindiya District ( ar, قضاء الهندية, translit=Kaza Al-Hindiya) is a district of the Karbala Governorate, Iraq. Its largest town is Al-Hindiya, to the east of Karbala. The Hindiya Barrage in the north of the district controls floods ...

. The city used to be known as Tuwairij ( ar, طويريج), which gives name to the "Tuwairij run" ( ar, ركضة طويريج) that takes place here every year as part of the

Mourning of Muharram The Mourning of Muharram (also known as Azadari, Remembrance of Muharram or Muharram Observances) is a set of commemoration rituals observed primarily by Shia people. The commemoration falls in Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. ...

on the

Day of Ashura A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds. In everyday life, the word "day" often refers to a solar day, which is the length between two s ...

. It has 84,100 citizens.

History

The city was founded in 1793 AD by "''Muhammad Yahya Asif Al-Dawla Bahadur Al-Hindi''" ( محمّد يحيى آصف الدولة بهادر الهندي), who was the first

Nawab of Awadh The Nawab of Awadh or the Nawab of Oudh was the title of the rulers who governed the state of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in north India during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Nawabs of Awadh belonged to a dynasty of Persian origin from Nishap ...

. He funded digging a canal on the

Euphrates The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers''). Originating in Turkey, the Eup ...

to provide drinkable water for the region.مجلة التراث الشعبي - العدد الأول - سنة 2002

Notable people

Nouri al Maliki Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president ...

went to school there in his younger days.

References

Hindiya Hindiya India–Iraq relations {{Iraq-geo-stub