Editing Anah (section)

===Antiquity===
The earliest references to Anah are probably found in letters of the period of [[Zimri-Lim]] of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]].

Under [[Hammurabi|Hammurapi]] of [[Babylon]] the town was under [[Babylonia]]n control, being included in the governorate of [[Sūḫu]]. Later, the town was under [[Assyria]]n rule.

At the beginning of the 8th century BC, Šamaš-rēša-uṣur and his son Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur succeeded in creating an independent political entity, and called themselves "governors of Sūḫu and Mari".<ref name=":0" /><ref>Cavigneaux, A., and B.K. Ismail, 'Die Statthalter von Suḫu und Mari im 8. Jh. v. Chr. anhand neuer Texte aus den irakischen Grabungen im Staugebiet des Qadissiya-Damms', ''Baghdader Mitteilungen'' 21 (1990), pp. 321–456 + pls. 35–38.</ref> The land of [[Suhum|Sūḫu]] occupied a quite extensive region on the Middle Euphrates, approximately from the area near [[Falluja]] in the southeast to the area of Ḫindanu (modern Tell Jabiriyah, near [[Al-Qa'im (town)|Al-Qa'im]]) in the northwest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/suhu/introduction/index.html|title='A Short Introduction on the Sūḫu Texts', Suhu: The Inscriptions of Suhu online Project, The Suhu Inscriptions Project|last=Bartelmus|first=Alexa|date=2016|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> Important evidence for this period was recovered during English and Iraqi salvage excavation campaigns at Sur Jurʿeh and on the island of ʿAna (Anah) in the early 1980s.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1983|title=Excavations in Iraq, 1981–82|journal=IRAQ|language=en|volume=45|issue=2|pages=199–224|doi=10.1017/S0021088900002424|s2cid=249896016 |issn=0021-0889}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1987|title=Excavations in Iraq 1985-86|journal=Iraq|volume=49|pages=231–251|issn=0021-0889|jstor=4200274|doi=10.1017/S0021088900006653|s2cid=249895688 }}</ref>

[[Xenophon]] recorded that the army of [[Cyrus the Younger]] resupplied during a campaign in 401&nbsp;BC at "Charmande" near the end of a 90-[[parasang]] march between [[Korsote]] and [[Pylae]],<ref>[[Xenophon]], ''Anabasis''.</ref> which likely intends Anah.{{fact|date=February 2024}}

Anatha was the site where the Roman emperor [[Julian (emperor)|Julian]] first met opposition in [[Julian's Persian expedition|his AD&nbsp;363 expedition]] against the [[Sassanid Empire]]. He got possession of the place and relocated its inhabitants.{{sfnp|Hogg|1911}}