Dhi Qar Province

Dhi Qar Province (Arabic: ذي قار‎, romanised: Dhī Qār) is a province in southern Iraq. The provincial capital is Nasiriyah. Prior to 1976 the province was kept as Muntafiq Province. Dhi Qar wis the hertland o the auncient Iraqi ceevilization o Sumer an the ruins o Ur, Eridu, Lagash an Girsu are present here.

Dhi Qar Govrenorate ذي قار Dhi Qar Province
Province
Coordinates: 31°14′N 46°19′E
Kintra	Iraq
Caipital	Nasiriyah
Area
• Total	12900 km2 (5,000 sq mi)
Population  (2003)
• Total	1,700,000

Auncient history

Further information: Sumer

Provincial Govrenment

• Govrenor: Talebalhassan
• Deputy Govrenor: Ahmed al-Sheik Taha
• Provincial Cooncil Chairman (PCC): Ihsan Al-Taei Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine

Dhi Qar the day

Dhi Qar province includes the touns o al-Rifai, Qalat Sukkar, Ash Shatrah, al-Gharraf, Suq al-Shuyouk, Khamisiyah an al-Chibayish

Accordin tae Ron Suskind, in the mid 1990s the govrenor wis Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who later became polis chief o the kintra, an in 1999, director o the Iraqi Intelligence Service.^[1]

An Nasiriyah witnessed some o the hiviest fechtin an some o the stiffest resistance against invadin U.S. forces in 2003.

See an aw

• Sumer
• Cradle o ceevilization
• Battle o Dhi Qar