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unusual facts about Shatt al-Hayy


Edward Elers Delaval Henderson

On 25 January 1917 on the west bank of the River Hai, near Kut, Mesopotamia, he performed the deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.


Arvand

Shatt al-Arab, also known as Arvand Rud, a river in Southwest Asia formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris

Faisal II of Iraq

Faisal's political situation deteriorated in 1956, with uprisings in the cities of Najaf and Hayy.

Maulana Abdul Hayy

Maulana Abdul Hayy Lucknawi (1264 - 1304 A.H.) author of many famous works and a great scholar of his time, was born in Banda, India, on Tuesday 26 Zul Qada 1264 A.H (roughly on Tuesday 24 October 1848 C.E.).

Paul-Émile Botta

In 1855, Victor Place, Botta's successor tried to send finds from Kish, Khorsabad, Nimrud and from Assurbanipal's palace in Niniveh, 235 cases all in all, from Mosul down the Tigris and the Shatt al-Arab to Basra, where they were to be loaded on a ship bound to Paris.

Robert Darr

Robert Darr (born 1951 in Orange County, California), also known as Robert Abdul Hayy Darr, is the author of several books on Sufism.

Sargon II

He was said to have been captured in the swamps of the Shatt al-Arab (though, as he seems to have proven a thorn in the side of Sennacherib later on, this might not have been quite true).

Shatt al-Arab

After being initially threatened with prosecution, they were released after high-level conversations between British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi.


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