{
 "id": "place/wasit",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "wasit",
 "label": {
  "ar": "واسط",
  "en": "Wasit"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة حامية أحدثها الحجاج سنة 83 أو 84؛ عند البلاذري بنى مسجدها وقصرها وقبة الخضراء بها وكانت أرض قصب فسميت واسط القصب وبينها وبين الأهواز والبصرة والكوفة مقدار واحد وكتب الحجاج إلى عبد الملك إني اتخذت مدينة في كرش من الأرض بين الجبل والمصرين فلذلك سمي أهل واسط الكرشيين.",
  "en": "A garrison city founded by al-Hajjaj in year 83 or 84; in al-Baladhuri he built its mosque, palace and Green Dome — it was reed-land, whence Wasit al-Qasab — equidistant from al-Ahwaz, Basra and Kufa; his letter to Abd al-Malik, 'I have founded a city in a karsh of land between the mountain and the two garrison towns,' is why the Wasitis were called al-Karshiyyin."
 },
 "stub": false,
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad",
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 407",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-37"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407",
   "source/salabi-umayyad-state-2020",
   "source/umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "واسط مدينة أحدثها [[person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf|الحجاج]] سنة 83 أو 84. عند البلاذري بنى مسجدها وقصرها والقبة الخضراء بها. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nكانت أرض قصب فسُمّيت واسط القصب. وهي على مقدار واحد من الأهواز و[[place/basra|البصرة]] و[[place/kufa|الكوفة]]. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nكتب الحجاج إلى [[person/abd-al-malik-ibn-marwan|عبد الملك]] أنه اتخذ مدينة في كرش من الأرض بين الجبل والمصرين، ولذلك سُمّي أهل واسط الكرشيين. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nتاريخ التأسيس مذكور بروايتين (83 أو 84)؛ يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/wasit",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Wasit is a city built by [[person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf|al-Hajjaj]] in the year 83 or 84 AH. According to al-Baladhuri, he built its mosque, its palace and the green dome in it. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nIt was a land of reeds, and so it was called Wasit of the Reeds (qasab). It is at an equal distance from al-Ahwaz, [[place/basra|Basra]] and [[place/kufa|Kufa]]. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nAl-Hajjaj wrote to [[person/abd-al-malik-ibn-marwan|Abd al-Malik]] that he had built a city in a hollow (karsh) of the land between the mountain and the two garrison cities, and so the people of Wasit were called the Karshiyyun. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nThe founding date is given in two versions (83 or 84 AH); an additional source is needed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/wasit",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "واسط ایک ایسا شہر ہے جسے [[person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf|حجاج]] نے سنہ 83 یا 84 ہجری میں بسایا۔ البلاذری کے مطابق اس کی مسجد، محل اور وہاں کا سبز گنبد ان کے بنوائے ہوئے تھے۔ {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nیہ زمین گنّوں کے کھیتوں والی تھی، اس لیے اسے واسطِ قصب کہا گیا۔ یہ اہواز، [[place/basra|بصرہ]] اور [[place/kufa|کوفہ]] سے برابر فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nحجاج نے [[person/abd-al-malik-ibn-marwan|عبدالملک]] کو لکھا کہ انہوں نے پہاڑ اور دو شہروں کے درمیان زمین کے ایک خطے (کرش) میں شہر بسایا ہے، اسی لیے واسط کے باشندوں کو کرشیین کہا گیا۔ {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.407}\n\nتاریخِ بنیاد دو روایتوں میں مذکور ہے (83 یا 84)؛ اس کے لیے مزید ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/wasit",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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 "degree": 22,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
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   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "قتل بها",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
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   "to": "person/al-faruthi",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
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    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
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  {
   "to": "person/al-faruthi",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
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  {
   "to": "event/death-of-hajjaj-95",
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   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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  {
   "to": "event/founding-of-wasit",
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   "inverse": true
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  {
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   "inverse": true
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   "to": "event/muwaffaq-rescue-267",
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   "inverse": true,
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/wasit-batini-killing-600",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/wasit-boats-drown-348",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/zanj-wasit-264",
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   "inverse": true,
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  },
  {
   "to": "building/bimaristan-muayyadi-wasit",
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   "inverse": true,
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  "person/abdallah-ibn-darraj",
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  "person/baha-al-dawla",
  "person/muawiya-ibn-al-muhallab"
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