Yusufiyah ( ar, اليوسفية, al-Yūsufīyah; also transliterated as Yusafiyah, Youssifiyah or Yusifiyah, occasionally prefixed with Al-) is a regional township in the
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate ( ar, محافظة بغداد ''Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād''), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq. It includes the capital Baghdad as well as the surrounding metropolitan area. The governor ...
of
Iraq
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.
Background
Yusufiyah is named after Yūsuf (
Joseph
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). It is about south of
Baghdad
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Former soldier at center of murder of Iraqi family dies after suicide attempt
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. February 18, 2014. Retrieved on February 19, 2014. and approximately east of
Fallujah
Fallujah ( ar, ٱلْفَلُّوجَة, al-Fallūjah, Iraqi pronunciation: ) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jew ...
. It is west of the large city of
Mahmudiyah, and 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
Russia
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n thermal power plant, approximately west-northwest of the town of Yusufiyah. A major canal, known as the
Yusufiyah canal
Yusufiyah ( ar, اليوسفية, al-Yūsufīyah; also transliterated as Yusafiyah, Youssifiyah or Yusifiyah, occasionally prefixed with Al-) is a regional township in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq.
Background
Yusufiyah is named after Yūsuf ( ...
, runs from
Sadr al Yusufiyah in the west, through Yusufiyah, and south to Latifiyah.
Yusufiyah has a population of 130,176,
most living in the city centre.
The Yusufiyah area is primarily located on the east side of
Euphrates
The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...
river, of which the Yusufiyah canal is a branch. This area has two archaeological locations called
Aldear and
Abu Haba. These locations formed part of the defensive borders of
Akkad Akkad may refer to:
*Akkad (city), the capital of the Akkadian Empire
*Akkadian Empire, the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia
*Akkad SC, Iraqi football club
People with the name
*Abbas el-Akkad, Egyptian writer
*Abdulrahman Akkad, Syrian LGBT act ...
(2000 B.C.) and the ancient name of Yusufiyah is
Sippar
Sippar ( Sumerian: , Zimbir) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its '' tell'' is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some ...
.
Architecture
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.
Demographics
The populace in the villages of Yusufiyah are mostly
Sunni
Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...
(about 58%), while about 99.9% of those living in the city centre are of one of the three major
Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
tribes. The smaller villages nearby include
Mulla Fayad
Mulla may refer to:
Places
* River Awbeg, in Ireland
* Mulla, Afghanistan
*Mollakənd, Kurdamir, Azerbaijan
Other uses
* Mullah, a title for an Islamic cleric
* Mulla (surname), including a list of people with the name
* ''Mulla'' (film), a ...
(approximately southwest of Yusufiyah) and
Rushdi Mullah (approximately 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.
Iraq War
The city was part of a group of cities of
Mahmudiya District
Al-Mahmudiya () is a district in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. Its seat is Mahmoudiyah.
Mahmudiya District has approximately 550,000 inhabitants, about over 88 percent of them Sunni and the rest Shia. This ratio is the result of the Iraqi Civil W ...
including Yusufiyah,
Mahmoudiyah,
Iskandariyah and
Latifiyah that was later referred to as
Triangle of Death.
See also
*
Triangle of Death (Iraq)
The Triangle of Death is a name given to a region south of Baghdad during the 2003–2011 occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from early 2003 into the fall of 2007.
Description
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References
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Populated places in Baghdad Province