Balad Rūz

Balad Ruz lies on the eastern Iraqi plain between Baqubah and Mandali. It is associated with Baraz al-Ruz, a district mentioned by the medieval geographer Yaqut, who recorded fine buildings erected there for the Abbasid caliph al-Mutadid. The place stood in the cultivated lands east of Baghdad, connected to routes leading toward the Iranian highlands. Watercourses and fertile fields supported settlement in a region where roads and canals carried people and produce across the plain.