Английская Википедия:Humaniya
al-Humānīya, also called al-Humayniyah, is a historical town in Iraq, on the Tigris.[1] Of probable Sasanian origin, Humaniya was a large regional town of medieval Iraq, mentioned by several contemporary authors.[2]
After the caliph al-Amin, died, his mother, Zubaydah, and his two sons were imprisoned in Humaniya on the orders of al-Ma'mun.[1] In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi described it as a village the size of a city,[2] surrounded by extensive farmland.[2] This suggests that Humaniya may have expanded during the late Abbasid period, even while most towns in the area were shrinking or becoming abandoned altogether.[2]
Archaeological evidence indicates that Humaniya was one of a relatively small number of permanent settlements in the region to remain occupied during the Ilkhanid period,[2] when settled agriculture was dramatically reduced throughout Iraq.[2] One or more minarets were still standing here when Felix Jones surveyed the area of the Nahrawan Canal in the mid-1800s,[2] and Guy Le Strange noted that Humaniya was "still found on the map" around the turn of the 20th century.[1]
Historically, Humaniya was on the right, or south, bank of the Tigris, but the oxbow loop it lay on became cut off in the late 19th century,[2] and it is now on the left/north bank.[3]
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