as-Samawah

Samawah or As-Samawah is a metropolis in Iraq, 280 kilometres southeast of Baghdad. The city of Samawah is the cutting-edge capital of the Al Muthanna Governorate. The metropolis is positioned halfway between Baghdad and Basra, at the northern fringe of the governorate. The province was installed in 1975; previous to that date it turned into a unified province along with Qadissiya and Najaf. The city changed into settled by using the Arab tribe of Banu Quda'a around the third century AD.

It is constructed on each aspects of the Euphrates river; there are four bridges within the centre of metropolis for crossing among the two facets. The west bank of the city incorporates the commercial heart of the town, and includes the old city and the Jewish region, agd al yahood. The west bank is the web site of the included marketplace Suq Al Masgoof, which dates to the Ottoman length. The location surrounding the marketplace is the old metropolis with its Byzantine maze of crowded markets and streets.