Abdas

Abdas is associated with the medieval town of Abdasi in the marsh country between Wasit and Basra. The geographer Yaqut traced its Arabic name to the older Persian Afdasahi, a settlement of the Kaskar district. Al-Yaqubi placed it on the route from Wasit toward al-Madhar in Maysan. Channels branching from the Tigris linked towns in this watery landscape, where reed beds, pastures and waterways supported a distinctive economy of the lower Iraqi plain.