| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 1,522,612,051 visitors served. |
|
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
Ar Ramadi |
Also found in: Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.17 sec. |
|
Ar Ramadi (är rämä`dē), town, provincial capital, central Iraq, on the Euphrates River. It is the eastern terminus of a highway across the desert from the Mediterranean Sea. The town was founded in 1869. The British won an important victory over the Turks there in 1917. The name also appears as Ramadie or Rumadiya. The town has been a center of Sunni insurgent resistance since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| ? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
Ar Ramadi is the capital of the volatile Al Anbar Province located in the seething heart of the Sunni insurgency. OXNARD - A 28-year-old sailor from Oxnard was killed Tuesday by a makeshift bomb near Ar Ramadi, Iraq, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. Whitley, 21, of Los Angeles, died June 15 when a bomb detonated near Ar Ramadi. |
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Browser extension |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|---|