Iraq
Najaf Governorate
Al-Manathera District

Al-Hira

Al-Hira was an ancient Lakhmid Arabic city in Mesopotamia located south of what is now in south-central . The Sasanian government established the Lakhmid Kingdom of Hatra on the edge of the Arabian Desert near in order to both prevent direct confrontation between the two empires and to gain its support in battles against Rome.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: ancient city in Mesopotamia
  • Also known as: “Al Ḩayrah”, “Al Ḩīrah”, “Al Hirah - الحيرة”, “Al-Hirah”, “al-Ḥīrah”, “Hirah”, and “Ḥirta”

Al-Hira

Latitude
31.88993° or 31° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
44.48675° or 44° 29′ 12″ east
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
8H36VFQP+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2485464979
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
99343
Wiki­data ID
Q310799
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Al-Hira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحيرة”
  • Arabic: “الحيره”
  • Arabic: “حيرة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hiyrə”
  • Basque: “Al-Hira”
  • Bengali: “আল-হিরা”
  • Catalan: “al-Hira”
  • Catalan: “Al-Hira”
  • Catalan: “Al-Hirah”
  • Catalan: “Hira”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەیرە”
  • Chinese: “希拉赫”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hirah”
  • Dutch: “Hira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الحيره”
  • French: “Al-Hira”
  • French: “Al-Hirah”
  • Georgian: “ალ-ჰირა”
  • German: “Al-Hira”
  • German: “Al-Hīra”
  • German: “Al-Ḥīrah”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חירה”
  • Hindi: “अल-हीरा”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Hira”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Hirah”
  • Italian: “Al-Hira”
  • Italian: “Hira”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ヒーラ”
  • Japanese: “ヒーラ”
  • Korean: “알히라”
  • Malay: “Hirah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Hira”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Hira”
  • Persian: “حیره”
  • Polish: “Al-Hira”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hira”
  • Portuguese: “Al Hirah”
  • Portuguese: “al-Hira”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Hira”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Hirah”
  • Portuguese: “al-Ḥīrah”
  • Portuguese: “Hira”
  • Russian: “Аль-Хира”
  • Russian: “Хира (город)”
  • Russian: “Хира”
  • Serbian: “Ал-Хира”
  • Serbian: “Ел Хира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Hira”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Hirah”
  • Sicilian: “Al-Hira”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hira”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hirah”
  • Tajik: “Ҳира”
  • Turkish: “Hire”
  • Turkish: “Hîre”
  • Ukrainian: “Аль-Хіра”
  • Urdu: “الحیرہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “الحیرہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Al-Hira”. Photo: Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Public domain.