Determining the historical area of Anbar

Determining the historical area of ​​Anbar

M.D. Abdulaziz Khader Abbas Al-JasemCenter for Strategic Studies / Anbar University / Iraq

It appears from historical and country sources that the Arabs, when they liberated Iraq, had initially followed the old divisions that were in the era of Sassanid foreign domination over Iraq in their administration of Iraq.

 The blackness of Iraq includes twelve korat (stan), while the tassijjah numbered sixty tahsuja. The tsuj of al-Anbar was one of the tassij of the high stan, which consisted of four tassij: the tsuj of Sabur (Al-Anbar), the tsuj of Fadoria (Baduriya), the tsuj of Qatrel, and the tsuj of Maskan  . The sources referred to these divisions during the first three centuries, which indicates that these divisions remained followed During this period of time, it was abolished and replaced by new administrative divisions. Al-Maqdisi (375 AH / 985 AD) says in this regard about blackness (and we made it six districts and a district, and the districts in the old days were other than these except Helwan). However, Al-Maqdisi does not refer to Al-Anbar in these divisions, and the information available to us does not give us a clear picture of the borders of the Anbar region in the Abbasid era, and this is due to the developments that occurred in the administrative division of Iraq in general and the administrative division in the Anbar region in particular. The instability of the political situation in the Anbar region, due to its exposure to control by the Arab Emirates that were established in Iraq in the Abbasid era, but we can roughly define the Anbar region, using what came from the information of its blood about the cities of this region. Following in this regard the locations of the cities and their administrative borders at the time, which constituted the external borders of the region, the state is bounded by a line that starts from the south of Fallujah and then goes north to the administrative borders of the city of Anbar and then to the administrative borders of the city of Hit and the city of Haditha to the north of the city of Anah and its administrative borders  As for its western borders, it was It was bordered by Levant at that time, but we do not know the extent of the extent of the Anbar region in that direction.