Wasit (irq)

Wasit

Wasit ranks 6,751st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Snyder, Texas, San Saba, Texas, and Elk Grove, California. Memorable people born in Wasit include Muhammad al-Shaybani, and Ahmad al-Rifaʽi. Memorable people who died in Wasit include Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, Ahmad al-Rifaʽi, and Abu Maʿshar. Wasit has been the birth place of many lawyers, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Wasit is located in Iraq.

Wasit was an early Islamic city in Iraq. It was founded in the 8th century by the Umayyad viceroy of Iraq, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, to serve as the region's seat and as the garrison of the Syrian troops who enforced Umayyad rule there. It was situated between the two traditional administrative centers and garrisons of Iraq, Kufa and Basra, hence its name Wasit. The city was abandoned centuries later and its ruins are located in the eponymous Wasit Governorate, southeast of Kut in southeastern Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia