Habbaniyah
Sign in to saveAl Habbaniyah or Habbaniya (, al-Ḥabbānīyah) is a city 85 km (53 mi) west of Baghdad in Al-Anbar Province, in central Iraq. A military airfield, RAF Habbaniya, was the site of a battle in 1941, during World War II. Lake Habbaniyah is also nearby.
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Place details
- Locality
- الحبانية
- Region
- محافظة الأنبار
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Al-Habbaniyah
- Settlement.native_name
- ٱلْحَبَّانِيَّة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Habbaniyah
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Entry to RAF Habbaniya Cemetery.JPG
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Al-Anbar
- Settlement.population_total
- 32,300
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2018
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT+3
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 31008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Fallujah District
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- postal code
- 31008
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- Habbaniyah
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Encyclopedic overview
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Al Habbaniyah or Habbaniya (, al-Ḥabbānīyah) is a city 85 km (53 mi) west of Baghdad in Al-Anbar Province, in central Iraq. A military airfield, RAF Habbaniya, was the site of a battle in 1941, during World War II. Lake Habbaniyah is also nearby.
== History == On 25 May 1941, during the Anglo-Iraqi War, the Second Battalion of the Fourth Gurkha Rifles (2/4 GR), forming part of the 10 Indian Infantry Division, was airlifted to reinforce and secure Habbaniyah, which was a Royal Air Force airfield under threat from Iraqi ground troops and the German Luftwaffe, located in Mosul, and Baghdad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Habbaniyah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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