Yusufiya

Yusufiyah (Arabic: اليوسفية; also transliterated as Yusafiyah, Youssifiyah or Yusifiyah, occasionally prefixed with Al-) is a regional township in the country of Iraq, located in Baghdad Province.

It is about 20 miles (32 km) south of Baghdad. It is approximately 21 km east of Fallujah, 10 kilometers west of the large city of Mahmudiyah, and 15 kilometers northwest of the town of Latifiyah. Yusufiyah is similar in name to the area known as Sadr al Yusufiyah, which is a larger, more urban area near a Russian thermal power plant, approximately 25 kilometers west-northwest of the town of Yusufiyah. A major canal, known as the Yusufiyah canal, runs from Sadr al Yusufiyah in the west, through Yusufiyah, and south to Latifiyah.

The Yusufiyah area located on the east side of Euphrates river and the Yusufiyah canal is a branch of the river. This area has two archaeological location called Aldear and Abu Haba. These locations part of the defense borders of Akkad (2000 B.C) and the ancient name of Yusufiyah is Sibbar.

The town of Yusufiyah has around one hundred buildings, with less than ten buildings that are over five stories tall. There are at least three mosques within Yusufiyah itself, and at least one in each nearby village. The vast majority of buildings in Yusufiyah are one or two story brick and cement structures with shops on the first floor and apartments on the second or third floors.

The populace within the semi-urban area of Yusufiyah is mostly Sunni and major three tribes of shia who mainly reside in the center of Yusufiyah. The smaller villages nearby include Mulla Fayad (approximately 2 km southwest of Yusufiyah) and Rushdi Mullah(approximately 8 km west of Yusufiyah). Agriculture is the main form of employment, with some retail and industrial shops within the town itself. Those Sunni and Shia tribes have rooted family connections.

The city was part of a group of cities of Mahmudiya District including Yusufiyah, Mahmoudiyah, Iskandariyah and Latifiyah that was later referred to as Triangle of Death.

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