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Wasit

extinct city in Iraq
Place archaeological_site Q1462261

Facts

6 properties

Designation

Instance of
archaeological site
Heritage designation
Tentative World Heritage Site[4]

Location

Country
Iraq[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 32.189°, 46.282°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Wasit Governorate[2]
More facts +1
World Heritage criteria
(i), (ii), (iv)[5][6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Wasit en Vāseṭ ar واسط ar مدينة واسط es al-Wasit es Wāsiṭ fa واسط، عراق fr Wâsit fr Al-Wasit he אל-ואסט hu Vászit id Wasith, Irak ja ワースィト ja ワシット ru Васит tr Vasıt zh 瓦西特
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
مدينة واسط الاثرية.jpg ↗
Biblissima authority ID
frieze group
Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID
SIM-5968
Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID
COM_1343
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Wasit
Facebook location ID
104075139628425
Freebase ID
/m/094bdh
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
423756
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/710C7306-E08E-4CA1-90CC-8458EF2AE23F
Nomisma ID
wasit
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
vasit
Topic's main category
Category:Wasit
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Who's on First ID
1360285927
World Heritage Tentative List ID
1468

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🔗 Connections
People born here 7
Mansur Al-Hallaj, Muhammad al-Shaybani, Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti, Niftawayh, Shu'ba Ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Hisham ibn Hakam, Ibn al-Dubaythi
People who died here 4
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Hanbal ibn Ishaq, Abu-Muhammad Hàmid ibn al-Abbàs
Country 1
Iraq
Heritage designation 1
Tentative World Heritage Site
Instance of 1
archaeological site
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Wasit Governorate
Located in this place 1
Siege of Wasit
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:00
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Summary

Wasit is an archaeological site[1].

Related Entities

Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Iraq Mansur Al-Hallaj

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bn', 'ca', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ja', '
    Located in time zone → —
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||az */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; remove alias=label/mul ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 32.18911111111111, 'lon': 46.28172222222222}
    Instance of → —
    Coordinates → —
    Heritage designation → Tentative World Heritage Site
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q265785, Import ID Biblissima V2 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/74d891b831c|details]])"
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