Al-Chibayish

Al-Chibayish
الجبايش
Al-Chibayish from the air
Al-Chibayish from the air
Nickname: 
City of the Marshes
Al-Chibayish is located in Iraq
Al-Chibayish
Al-Chibayish
Coordinates: 30°57′17.7″N 46°58′30.3″E / 30.954917°N 46.975083°E / 30.954917; 46.975083Coordinates: 30°57′17.7″N 46°58′30.3″E / 30.954917°N 46.975083°E / 30.954917; 46.975083
Country Iraq
GovernorateDhi Qar
DistrictAl-Chibayish
Elevation9 m (30 ft)
Population
(2014)
 • Total36,100
Time zoneUTC+3 (AST)
Area code01

Al-Chibayish is a town on the Euphrates River in Al-Chibayish District, Dhi Qar governorate, in southern Iraq. It is the capital of its eponymous district.

Al-Chibayish is inhabited primarily by Marsh Arabs of the Beni Isad tribe. Al-Chibayish has historically been an important hub for the Marsh Arab people and a traditional boat-building center for their mashoof canoes.

History

Al-Chibayish was the subject of a groundbreaking 1955 ethnographic study, Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, by Iraqi anthropologist Shakir Mustafa Salim.

Al-Chibayish was home to about 11,000 people in 1955. Al-Chibayish's population dropped to less than 6,000 by 2003 as a result of Saddam Hussein's draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes and his associated campaign of violence against the Marsh Arabs, during which Al-Chibayish was attacked by military helicopters. However, the population recovered and quintupled between 2001 and 2009, when it reached an estimated 30,416 people.


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