Al-Shamiya ( ar, الشامية) is a city in

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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 Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. It is roughly 147 km south of

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

on the Al-Shamiya branch of the

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

. Settlement dates back to

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times, but the modern city was established in 1822 during the Ottoman era, named "Hamidya" after

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

. It was renamed al-Shamiya "

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ine" after the establishment of the

Kingdom of Iraq The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq ( ar, المملكة العراقية الهاشمية, translit=al-Mamlakah al-ʿIrāqiyyah ʾal-Hāshimyyah) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdo ...

. The city's population has grown quickly, from 189,000 in 1997 to 230,974 in 2007Marvellous Mesopotamia، The world's wonderland، by Toseph T.Parfit M.A، Page 15 to an estimated 300,000 in 2014. The population has been homogeneously

Twelver Shi'a Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

for centuries, and many descend from the Nakha tribe of Arabia. It is located in the fertile, irrigated, drained, and alluvial plain of the middle Euphrates region. The area surrounding the city is notable for its crops, especially rice, dates, and wheat.

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مديرية زراعة الديوانية
/ شعبة زراعة الشامية،بيانات غير منشورة.
وزارة الموارد المائية
/ دائرة ري الشامية، بيانات غير منشورة. {{Districts of Iraq Cities in Iraq Populated places along the Silk Road Populated places on the Euphrates River Populated places in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate