Al Muthanna Governorate (Arabic: المثنى Al Muthannā‎), is a province in Iraq. It is in the south of the country, bordering Saudi Arabia. Its capital is the city of Samawah, which is located very close to the ancient city of Uruk. Prior to 1976 it was part of the Diwaniya Province, which also included present day Najaf Governorate and Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.
It also includes the ancient Babylonian ruin of Uruk (Aramaic: Erech), which is possibly the source of the name Iraq.


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Some information about these would be great!

BTW lovely province :)

^^ that castle is an old castle called Salman castle or Salman prison ..
read this article about it

قلعة صحراوية يعود تاريخها لايام الحكم العثماني ، اعاد الانكليز تأهيلها مجددا لتكون مركز حراسة حدودي وواحدة من اهم قلاع الدفاع عن المناطق المدنية بوجه غزوات العشائر البدوية والمهربين من المنافذ الجنوبية الغربية للحدود مع السعودية ، استخدمها الجنرال الانلكيزي كلوب باشا عام 1928 بعد توسعتها كمعسكر حراسة ومراقبة لقواته جنوب غرب العراق ، ثم اعيد تأهيلها في العهد الملكي لتؤدي وظيفة جديدة لم تألفها من قبل ، السجن لاصحاب الاحكام الثقيلة من السياسيين ، والغرض من هذا الاختيار هو الامعان في تعذيب من يرسل لها وحرمانه من حقوقه في التواصل مع ذويه . اذ كان السجن قع في الصحراء وتحيط ه الذئاب .

and the other one is Ancient city of Uruk :)

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al ghadeer palast

Great

^^ we have a separate thread for that do you mind posting it there?

go ahead brother

Samawah

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Really nice pics.

ferris wheel mania reaches samawa. this wasn't there 5 months ago!

Samawah is one of the safest cities in Iraq and deserve more project,
Would love to see it devolped

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This looks amazing! I love it.

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I love this building, guessing it's part of Muthanna Uni. Very nice old Iraqi architecture... wanna see more buildings like this!


All the other pics are great too.. again, Samawah's doing great.

Your right habibi chounz, I wana see more of it too <3
I wish construction designs where regulated by people like us. Xx

Your right habibi chounz, I wana see more of it too <3
I wish construction designs where regulated by people like us. Xx

I swear! ... we'd make Iraq so beautiful. xoxo

I know wed make the perfect team (k) wel ban all cheap clading from the country.

I know wed make the perfect team (k) wel ban all cheap clading from the country.

Mwahhh. Maybe one day! Hope. <3

Yeah guys we should run our own engineering company one day! :D

but Im going to be a pharmacist, however I have a great architrctural mindset. Xox
you can also use me to drug those men who are ruining iraqs architecture ;)

Haha sumerianking n1 xD

This looks amazing! I love it.



I love this building, guessing it's part of Muthanna Uni. Very nice old Iraqi architecture... wanna see more buildings like this!


All the other pics are great too.. again, Samawah's doing great.

samawa's not doing very well compared to other provinces. I would say out of the southern provinces its the worst (along with amarah).

samawa's not doing very well compared to other provinces. I would say out of the southern provinces its the worst (along with amarah).

LOL really? Seems like it's doing the best after Najaf and Karbalaa.

Looks like it's doing better than 7illa definitely, better than Nasriyah, better than Kut, better than Diwaniyah, and Amarah like you mentioned.

Bas wallah jama3et abu 3oday chan 3ed-hum khosh dhoq. ;) :D

Bas wallah jama3et abu 3oday chan 3ed-hum khosh dhoq. ;) :D

that was a mistake. This building was made after 2003. the building made before 2003 is the Medical College HQ by the riverside which was the old baath party HQ.

PS.
Nassiriya is far better than Samawa. I don't know about Hillah.

that was a mistake. This building was made after 2003. the building made before 2003 is the Medical College HQ by the riverside which was the old baath party HQ.

Yes I figured you made a mistake after editing your post but I really liked that comment that I thought of so I decided to post it anyway.. :D

So we're actually able to produce some nice-looking buildings post-2003... how surprising. I guess they built that in the early years of the occupation before the plague of the aluminum cladding spread.

there are a lot of buildings built with that sort of cladding all over Iraq. its not all aluminium cladding.

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Very nice!

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Amazing!! :)

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not bad..

Market in Samawa
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wow. is that shari3 bata? they really did the street nicely... now just renovate the old buildings...

Yes it is shar3 bata ( شارع باتا ) :)

Nice street. We need more nice pedestrian roads/areas in Iraq...

wow. is that shari3 bata? they really did the street nicely... now just renovate the old buildings...

Ba66a as in duck? :D

EDIT: Never mind. Just saw Euphrates' post.

bata as in...

http://www.bata.com/

also bata as in..

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and who remember bata shoes :)

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شارع القشلة .. السماوة ^^^

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Sawa lake is seen at sunset in Samawa, 270 km (160 miles) south of Baghdad, February 21, 2013. One of the most well-known lakes in Iraq, Lake Sawa, is a large closed body of salt water situated in the desert between Baghdad and Basra. The lake is dubbed by some as "the Pearl of the South" for its beauty and unique composition. It is surrounded by a cliff of piled sand dunes, providing a natural levee that keeps the water above ground level. As the lake has no proven link to either river or sea, the source of its water has been a mystery to researchers for centuries. Picture taken February 21, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

Sawa lake is seen at sunset in Samawa, 270 km (160 miles) south of Baghdad, February 21, 2013. One of the most well-known lakes in Iraq, Lake Sawa, is a large closed body of salt water situated in the desert between Baghdad and Basra. The lake is dubbed by some as "the Pearl of the South" for its beauty and unique composition. It is surrounded by a cliff of piled sand dunes, providing a natural levee that keeps the water above ground level. As the lake has no proven link to either river or sea, the source of its water has been a mystery to researchers for centuries. Picture taken February 21, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

Sorry? Never even heard of this "Sawa lake".

I know habbaniyah, and razzaza and tharthar.

It is because it is not as big as those you mentioned

Sawa Lake in Google Maps (https://maps.google.dk/maps?q=Sawa%20lake&aq=f&um=1&hl=da&biw=1777&bih=820&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il)

Sorry? Never even heard of this "Sawa lake".

I know habbaniyah, and razzaza and tharthar.

those are not technically lakes but artificial water storage areas whereas sawa is a natural lake and was mentioned in the old testament too...

its true that almost no one from baghdad has heard of it though... but then people there are ignorant of most things south of al dora due to the "north south divide" of the past few decades.

those are not technically lakes but artificial water storage areas whereas sawa is a natural lake and was mentioned in the old testament too...

its true that almost no one from baghdad has heard of it though... but then people there are ignorant of most things south of al dora due to the "north south divide" of the past few decades.

Really??? I always thought those 3 were natural lakes...... so did they not exist more than 100 years ago? When were they created.

they were created in the 20th century when the barrages were built in samara and ramadi. before that sometimes they would naturally collect rainwaters from the valleys but were not permanent lakes.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2013/04/01/Iraq-s-historic-Lake-Sawa-suffers-from-neglect.html

dqzG27pSNks

HAA!!!

Dr Sarhan Al Khafaji was our geomorphologist on the Nassiriya Refinery project!! Very good guy and a professional dude.


at minute 18... the head of muthanna university is talking about making a solar updraft tower for power generation... an idea I proposed to them 4 years ago :D :lol:

haha you're a genius sheytan

I was so surprised to hear him speak! very happy to see that the samawa university people didn't have the "in one ear out the other" attitude!

although the way they conducted their diving was very unprofessional... they should have used the RHIB to get in the lake and dive to the bottom... and pay $400 for a decent underwater cam!

i know, was thinking the same...also not getting the boat in the lake was counterproductive, if a complication happened they would of been in trouble. Also, their conclusion that there are no fish in the lake is a bit misleading...the dead fish they found are new?

Great pictures!

Personally, I love Muthanna. Samawa is beautiful because it's simple. The people (who I have met) are nice and quiet. It's like they're in their own bubble!

This could be a great tourist attraction if they develop it. Build a small town near the lake,plant palm groves and trees, fix up the landscape, build a berth, level the shore to make it a proper beach. get a foreign company to build a 5 star hotel. Soon enough were going to see people coming from the west with drinks and bikinis :lol:

:) so much potential, unfortunately I don't think any Company will invest so much money to retaliate the area.

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خوش صورة وشارع جميل جداً الف شكر حبيبي سنجوري

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