Al-Hirah
Imperial capital
ancient city in Mesopotamia
Location: 31.9800, 44.3900 · Pleiades 912800
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the capital of the Lakhmid kings, the Arab dynasty the Persians kept on their desert frontier, until the Sasanians ended it in 602
Who is recorded here
- Ishoyahb I death · AD 596
- Acacius death
- Cyrus of Edessa residence
In art
About the place
Al-Hira was an ancient city and a major metropolis located in Mesopotamia, in what is now south-central Iraq. It was the capital city of the Lakhmid kingdom, the major Arab client kingdom of the Sasanian Empire in pre-Islamic times, between the fourth and the seventh centuries.
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