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Hirah (Hīraḥ هيرح) was the capital city of the Lakhmids (al-Lakhmiyyūn اللخميون). It was an Arab cosmopolitan city teaming with palaces, churches, and monasteries. The ruins of this magnificent town can be seen near the present-day Najaf.1
Further Reading
Talbot Rice, “The Oxford Excavations in Hira, 1931,” Antiquity 6 no. 23 (Sep. 1932): 276 – 291.
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