An-Nu'māniyya

Al-Numaniyah lies on the Tigris between Baghdad and Wasit, amid the cultivated lowlands of Iraq. Medieval geographers described a town of this name on the river's western bank, with a market and congregational mosque. Al-Yaqubi also mentioned the monastery of Ezekiel nearby. The fertile countryside and river placed it on an important route through the Iraqi plain; the older town's remains were later associated with the mound known as Tell Numan.