Mandali

Mandali lies on the eastern edge of the Iraqi plain, where routes approach the Zagros. Medieval writers knew the district as Bandanijayn, a name derived from the older Persian form Wandanikān. Yaqut described several separate neighbourhoods whose palm gardens joined one another, the largest called Baqutaya. The town lay on the road from the Nahrawan toward the mountains, and its fertile surroundings produced dates and fruit at the meeting of lowland Iraq and the Iranian frontier.