Ar-Ruṣāfa

Al-Rusafa was a settlement in the district of Wasit in southern Iraq, associated with the Maymun watercourse. Medieval writers distinguished it from the many other places bearing the same name, including the eastern quarter of Baghdad. One described it as a large village downstream from Wasit; another named it the principal settlement of the Maymun district. Its position belonged to the network of river channels and cultivated lands that spread across the lower Iraqi plain.