Della Valle and Texeira called Anah the principal Arab town on the Euphrates, controlling a major route west from Baghdad and territory reaching Palmyra. ====Late Ottoman era==== About 1750, the Ottomans installed a rudimentary administration to run Anah and its district.
Chesney reported about 1800 houses, two mosques, and 16 waterwheels.
Ainsworth, chronicling the British Euphrates expedition, reported that in 1835 the Arabs inhabited the northwest part of the town, the Christians the center, and the Jews the southeast.
With the positioning of Turkish troops in the town around 1890, the locals no longer had to pay blackmail (huwwa) to the bedouins.
In 1909 Anah had an estimated population of 15,000 and 2,000 houses.
Most of the inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arabs, though a small Jewish community lived on the town's southern edge. ===Kingdom of Iraq=== In 1918, the town was captured by British forces and by 1921, became incorporated into the Kingdom of Iraq.
Most of the inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arabs, though a small Jewish community lived on the town's southern edge. ===Kingdom of Iraq=== In 1918, the town was captured by British forces and by 1921, became incorporated into the Kingdom of Iraq.
The townspeople's long feud with the inhabitants of Rawa was settled diplomatically by 1921.
Muayad Said described it as an octagonal body "enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind" and noted earlier conservation work undertaken in 1935, 1963 and 1964.
The town had relatively high educational standards, with eight schools built there by 1946. F.
Muayad Said described it as an octagonal body "enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind" and noted earlier conservation work undertaken in 1935, 1963 and 1964.
Muayad Said described it as an octagonal body "enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind" and noted earlier conservation work undertaken in 1935, 1963 and 1964.
Important evidence for this period was recovered during English and Iraqi salvage excavation campaigns at Sur Jurʿeh and on the island of ʿAna (Anah) in the early 1980s. Xenophon recorded that the army of Cyrus the Younger resupplied during a campaign in 401 BC at "Charmande" near the end of a 90-parasang march between Korsote and Pylae, which likely intends Anah.
When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam in 1984/85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections and removed it to the new Anah, where it was re-erected to a height of at the end of the 1980s. ISIS captured the town in 2014.
When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam in 1984/85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections and removed it to the new Anah, where it was re-erected to a height of at the end of the 1980s. ISIS captured the town in 2014.
When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam in 1984/85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections and removed it to the new Anah, where it was re-erected to a height of at the end of the 1980s. ISIS captured the town in 2014.
On September 19, 2017, an offensive to retake the town from ISIS control began.
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