Anah
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Anah Arabic: عانة |
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 Anah
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| Coordinates: 34°22′20″N 41°59′15″E / 34.37222°N 41.98750°ECoordinates: 34°22′20″N 41°59′15″E / 34.37222°N 41.98750°E | |
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Province | Al-Anbar |
| Occupation |
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| Elevation | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 27,211 |
| Time zone | GMT+3 (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 31005 |
Anah or Ana (Arabic: عانة, ʾĀna), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately midway between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit.
The town is called Ha-na-atTemplate:Supsmall in a Babylonian letter around 2200 BC,A-na-at by the scribes of Tukulti-Ninurta c. 885 BC, and An-at by the scribes of Assur-nasir-pal II in 879 BC. The name has been connected with the widely worshipped war goddess Anat. It was known as Anathō (Greek: Άναθω) to Isidore Charax and Anatha to Ammianus Marcellinus; early Arabic writers described it variously as ʾĀna or (as if plural) ʾĀnāt.
Despite maintaining its name across 42 centuries, the exact location of the settlement seems to have moved from time to time. Sources across most of its early history, however, place Anah on an island in the Euphrates.
Its early history under the Babylonians is uncertain. A 3rd-millennium BC letter mentions six "men of Hanat" are mentioned in a description of disturbances in the Residency of Suhi, which would have included the district of Anah. It is probably not the place mentioned by Amenhotep I in the 16th century BC or in the speech of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah, but probably was the site "in the middle of the Euphrates" opposite which Assur-nasir-pal II halted during his 879 BC campaign. It may also be mentioned in four 7th-century BC documents edited by Claude Hermann Walter Johns.
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