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Ad Diwaniyah

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Ad Diwaniyah (äd dēwän`ēyä), city, S central Iraq, on a branch of the Euphrates River and on the Baghdad-Basra railroad. It is a marketplace for dates and grains.
Ad Diwaniyah 

a city in Iraq, on the Hillah River, an arm of the Euphrates. It is the administrative center of Kadisiya Mukhafaza (district). Population, 60,600 (1965). It is linked with Baghdad and Basra by railroad and highway. Ad Diwaniyah is the commercial center of a rich agricultural region producing grain (chiefly rice) and dates.



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They sent him to Ad Diwaniyah, a city south of Bagdad where he and other members of India Company guarded banks and patrolled the streets to deter looters.
In Ad Diwaniyah marines called in Cobra helicopters and other aircraft after they were attacked by Iraqi irregular troops.
 
 
 
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