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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 [[Bedouinbedouin]] tribes of Iraq through the use of land grants, in the belief that this would bind them more closely to the state and make them easier to control.<ref name="DiMarco2012">{{cite book|last=DiMarco|first=Louis A.|title=Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXPhzfF9yAgC|date=20 November 2012|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-78200-313-7|page=190}}</ref><ref name="Abu-Rabia2001">{{cite book|last=Abu-Rabia|first=Aref|title=A Bedouin Century: Education and Development Among the Negev Tribes in the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEJKW1IaynwC|year=2001|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-832-4|page=148}}</ref>