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==History==
Ramadi is located in a fertile, irrigated, alluvial plain, within Iraq's [[Sunni Triangle]]. A settlement already existed in the area when the British explorer [[Francis Rawdon Chesney]] passed through in 1836 on a steam-powered boat during an expedition to test the navigability of the Euphrates. He described it as a "pretty little town" and noted that the black tents of the Bedouin could be seen along the both banks of the river all the way from Ramadi to Falujah.<ref name="Chesney1868">{{cite book|last=Chesney|first=Francis Rawdon|title=Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition: Carried on by Order of the British Government During the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBsGAAAAQAAJ|year=1868|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|page=281}}</ref> The modern city was founded in 1869 by [[Midhat Pasha]], the [[Ottoman Iraq|Ottoman]] Wali (Governor) of Baghdad. The Ottomans sought to control the previously nomadic Dulaim tribe in the region as part of a programme of settling the [[
[[File:Ramadi Mosque 2004.jpg|thumb|Ramadi Mosque 2004]]
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