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Al Fallūjah (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 20 57 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 33.3490 decimal degrees |
| Long: 043 47 10 E degrees minutes |
Long: 43.7860 decimal degrees |
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Note: Site of the ruins of Anbar, one of the most important city of late ancient times in Iraq. Capital of the Abbasid dynasty in 752 CE. A nearby chemical plant was bombed in the 1991 Gulf War. |
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| Al Fallūjah (preferred,C,V)
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| Al-Fallūjah (C,V)
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| Al Fallūja (C,V)
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| Al Falooja (C,V)
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| Falluja (C,O)
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| Fallujah (C,O)
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| Fallūjah (C,V)
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| الفلوجة (C,V,Arabic,U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded in the 4th century CE |
| capital (H) |
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off the Abbasid dynasty in 752 CE |
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Pumbedita .......... (deserted settlement) |
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(World, Asia, Al-ʻIrāq, Baghdād) [6004859] |
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