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Muqdadiyah (Arabic: المقدادية‎) (also transliterated Al-Muqdadiyah, Muqdadia, Miqdadiyah) is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq.

This city was a part of the Persian Sassanid Empire and had the Persian name Shahraban, meaning the satrap. The name is still used locally, although as of late, the term Muqdadiyah--"given by the Magi" (a Zoroastrian priest) has largely replaced the old name, Shahraban, but not completely.

The city is located at 33°58′43″N 44°56′13″E / 33.97861°N 44.93694°E / 33.97861; 44.93694, about 80 km northeast of Baghdad and 30 km northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala.

It has a population of about 298,000 inhabitants^[1], with a majority of them Sunni Arabs. Other inhabitants are the Sunni Kurds, Sunni Turkomans, Feyli Kurds, and the Shia Arabs.

Shareban (شاره‌بان Kurdish name of the city) was arabised by former regimes of Iraq. The majority of its population was Kurds.

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The majority of this city is Arabic people and there are some Kurdish with are immigrate to work in this city, they are around 3%

Sources

About the name:

• محمدی ملایری، محمد: فرهنگ ایران در دوران انتقال از عصر ساسانی به عصر اسلامی، جلد دوم: دل ایرانشهر، تهران، انتشارات توس 1375.: Mohammadi Malayeri, M.: Del-e Iranshahr, vol. II, Tehran 1375 Hs.)

External links

• Iraq Image - Muqdadiyah Satellite Observation