Английская Википедия:Anbar (town)

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Anbar (Шаблон:Lang-ar, Шаблон:Lang-syr[1]) was an ancient and medieval town in central Iraq. It played a role in the Roman–Persian Wars of the 3rd–4th centuries, and briefly became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate before the founding of Baghdad in 762. It remained a moderately prosperous town through the 10th century, but quickly declined thereafter. As a local administrative centre, it survived until the 14th century, but was later abandoned.

Its ruins are near modern Fallujah. The city gives its name to the Al-Anbar Governorate.

History

Origins

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Assyrian wall relief showing a scribe and a horseman trampling enemies. From Anah, al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq. 9th–7th century BCE. Iraq Museum

The city is located on the left bank of the Middle Euphrates, at the junction with the Nahr Isa canal, the first of the navigable canals that link the Euphrates to the River Tigris to the east.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The origins of the city are unknown, but ancient, perhaps dating to the Babylonian era and even earlier: the local artificial mound of Tell Aswad dates to Шаблон:Circa.Шаблон:Sfn

Sasanian period

The town was originally known as Misiche (Greek: Шаблон:Lang), Mesiche (Шаблон:Lang), or Massice (Шаблон:Lang-pal mšyk; Шаблон:Lang-xpr mšyk).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As a major crossing point of the Euphrates, and occupying the northernmost point of the complex irrigation network of the Sawad, the town was of considerable strategic significance.Шаблон:Sfn As the western gate to central Mesopotamia, it was fortified by the Sasanian ruler Shapur I (Шаблон:Reign) to shield his capital, Ctesiphon, from the Roman Empire.Шаблон:Sfn After his decisive victory over the Roman emperor Gordian III at the Battle of Misiche in 244, Shapur renamed the town to Peroz-Shapur (Pērōz-Šāpūr or Pērōz-Šābuhr, from Шаблон:Lang-pal, meaning "victorious Shapur"; in Шаблон:Lang-xpr; in Шаблон:Lang-arc).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It became known as Pirisapora or Bersabora (Шаблон:Lang-grc) to the Greeks and Romans.Шаблон:Sfn

The city was fortified by a double wall, possibly through the use of Roman prisoner labour; it was sacked and burned after an agreement with its garrison in March 363 by the Roman emperor Julian during his invasion of the Sasanian Empire.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It was rebuilt by Shapur II.Шаблон:Sfn By 420, it is attested as a bishopric,Шаблон:Sfn both for the Church of the East and for the Syriac Orthodox Church.Шаблон:Sfn The town's garrison was Persian, but it also contained sizeable Arab and Jewish populations.Шаблон:Sfn Anbar was adjacent or identical to the Babylonian Jewish center of Nehardea (Шаблон:Lang-arc), and lies a short distance from the present-day town of Fallujah, formerly the Babylonian Jewish center of Pumbedita (Шаблон:Lang-arc).

Islamic period

The city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate in July 633, after a fiercely fought siege.Шаблон:Sfn When Ali ibn Abi Talib (r. 656–661) passed through the city, he was warmly welcomed by ninety-thousand Jews who then lived there, and he "received them with great friendliness."[2]

The Arabs retained the name (Fīrūz Shābūr) for the surrounding district, but the town itself became known as Anbar (Middle Persian word for "granary" or "storehouse") from the granaries in its citadel, a name that had appeared already during the 6th century.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn According to Baladhuri, the third mosque to be built in Iraq was erected in the city by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas.Шаблон:Sfn Ibn Abi Waqqas initially considered Anbar as a candidate for the location of one of the first Muslim garrison towns, but the fever and fleas endemic in the area persuaded him otherwise.Шаблон:Sfn

According to medieval Arabic sources, most of the inhabitants of the town migrated north to found the city of Hdatta south of Mosul.[3] The famous governor al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf cleared the canals of the city.Шаблон:Sfn

Abu'l-Abbas as-Saffah (Шаблон:Reign), the founder of the Abbasid Caliphate, made it his capital in 752, constructing a new town half a farsakh (Шаблон:Circa) to the north for his Khurasani troops. There he died and was buried at the palace he had built. His successor, al-Mansur (Шаблон:Reign), remained in the city until the founding of Baghdad in 762.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Abbasids also dug the great Nahr Isa canal to the south of the city, which carried water and commerce east to Baghdad.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Nahr al-Saqlawiyya or Nahr al-Qarma canal, which branches off from the Euphrates to the west of the city, is sometimes erroneously held to be the Nahr Isa, but it is more likely that it is to be identified with the pre-Islamic Nahr al-Rufayl.Шаблон:Sfn

It continued to be a place of much importance throughout the Abbasid period.Шаблон:Sfn Caliph Harun al-Rashid (Шаблон:Reign) stayed at the town in 799 and in 803.Шаблон:Sfn The town's prosperity was founded on agricultural activities, but also on trade between Iraq and Syria.Шаблон:Sfn The town was still prosperous in the early 9th century, but the decline of Abbasid authority during the later 9th century exposed it to Bedouin attacks in 882 and 899. In 927, the Qarmatians under Abu Tahir al-Jannabi sacked the city during their invasion of Iraq, and the devastation was compounded by another Bedouin attack two years later.Шаблон:Sfn The town's decline accelerated after that: while the early 10th-century geographer Istakhri still calls the town modest but populous, with the ruins of the buildings of as-Saffah still visible, Ibn Hawqal and al-Maqdisi, who wrote a generation later, attest to its decline, and the diminution of its population.Шаблон:Sfn

The town was sacked again in 1262 by the Mongols under Kerboka.Шаблон:Sfn The Ilkhanids retained Anbar as an administrative centre, a role it retained until the first half of the 14th century; the Ilkhanid minister Shams al-Din Juvayni had a canal dug from the city to Najaf, and the city was surrounded by a wall of sun-dried bricks.Шаблон:Sfn

Ecclesiastical history

Anbar used to host an Assyrian community from the fifth century: the town was the seat of a bishopric of the Church of the East. The names of fourteen of its bishops of the period 486–1074 are known, three of whom became Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon.[4]

Titular see

Anbar is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see of the Chaldean Catholic Church,[5] established as titular bishopric in 1980.

It has had the following incumbents:

Today

It is now entirely deserted, occupied only by mounds of ruins, whose great number indicate the city's former importance.Шаблон:Sfn Its ruins are Шаблон:Convert northwest of Fallujah, with a circumference of some Шаблон:Convert. The remains include traces of the late medieval wall, a square fortification, and the early Islamic mosque.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. ↑ Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Peruz Shapur — ܐܢܒܐܪ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/211.
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Oriens christianus
  5. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 Шаблон:ISBN), p. 832
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