An Numaniyah

An-Nu'maniyah
النعمانية
An-Nu'maniyah النعمانية is located in Iraq
An-Nu'maniyah النعمانية
An-Nu'maniyah
النعمانية
Location Iraq
Coordinates: 32°30′0″N 45°20′0″E / 32.50000°N 45.33333°E / 32.50000; 45.33333
CountryIraq
GovernorateWasit
DistrictAl-Nu'maniya District
Population
 (2018)[citation needed]
 • Total71,000

An-Nu'mānīyah (Arabic: النعمانية, romanizedan-Nuʿmānīyah) is a city on the Tigris river in Iraq, located roughly 140 kilometres (87 mi) southeast of Baghdad in the Wasit Province. It is the site of one of four national training centers for the Iraqi Army.

It is also the site of a base that was built by the Hussein regime and constructed by Yugoslavian contractors Mostogradnja. Following the beginning of the Iraq War, it changed its purpose September 1, 2004[1] to operate as a training base for new recruits and serve as the home station for three battalions of the Iraqi Intervention Force – the Iraqi army's counterinsurgency wing.


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