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Encyclopedia Britannica



HIRA

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 523 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HIRA , the
capital
  of an Arabian kingdom, founded in the 2nd
century
  A.D., on the western edge of Irak, was situated at 32 N., 44 20' E., about 4 M. S.E. of
modern
  Nejef, by the Sa'ade canal, on the shore of the Bahr Nejef or Assyrium Stagnum. Its kings governed the western shore of the
lower
  Euphrates and of the Persian Gulf, their kingdom extending inland to the con-fines of the
Nejd
 . This Lakhmid kingdom was more or less dependent, during the four centuries of its existence, on the
Sassanian
 
empire
 , to which it formed a sort of buffer state towards Arabia. After the battle of Kadesiya and the
founding
  of Kufa by the
Arabs
 , Hira lost its importance and fell into decay. The ruin mounds covering the ancient site, while extensive, are insignificant in
appearance
  and give no indications of the existence of important buildings.


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