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Lion of Babylon -> RE: Names of Iraqi cities.. origins & meaning? (8/17/2007 11:14:22 AM)
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You must have missed this one bros.
Al Anbar (Arabic: الأنبار; al-’Anbār) is a governorates of Iraq. The largest province in Iraq by area, it has one of the lowest population densities in Iraq and shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Al Anbar is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab. Its capital is Ar Ramadi.
The name of the province is from the Arabic انبار, ’Anbār, and means "granaries," as this region was the primary entrepot on the western borders of Persian Sassanid Empire. The famous Sunni theologian Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man, who developed Hanafi, one of the Sunni Madh'habs (schools of thought) is associated with this region.
Before 1976 the province was known as Ramadi; before 1962, it was known as Dulaim
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