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Hil·lah

 (hĭl′ə)
A city of central Iraq on a branch of the Euphrates River south of Baghdad. It was built c. 1100, largely of material salvaged from the nearby ruins of Babylon.
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Punters can expect to be taken to the ancient gardens, which were a paradise of ascending tiered gardens with variety of trees, shrubs, and vines that were built on present day Hillah, Babil, in Iraq.
Ashkanani pointed out that the two-day exhibition also showcases exclusive and rare pictures of Karbala, Baghdad, Souq al-Shyoukh, Hillah and Ahwar, in addition to archeological sites in Ur.
The remains were found in the provinces of Basra, Nasiriyah , Najaf and Hillah in the south of the country, as well as Anbar province in the west.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks, and said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.
Muscat: The Al Hillah and Al Khandaq forts have now been reopened for tourists.
performed at Lohari Pull and Hillah Wajeeh areas of Multan where local artists presented tableaus to provide information to the people concerned.
A police source told the reporter of the National Iraqi News Agency / nina / that the kidnapping process was carried out in street 30 in Hillah, and the kidnapper put the child in the back box of the car and fled." He added that the police gathered information and evidence and deployed secret detachments to trace the kidnapper, and managed to arrest him in the Kifl district , south of Hillah, after less than six hours on the kidnapping" ./ End
Hillah, Iraq, Jumada II 16, 1437, Mar 25, 2016, SPA -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 50 others injured on Friday in a suicide attack that targeted a football game in Babel province, according to local police.
March 11 will mark the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which claimed the lives of 15,894, and the subsequent damage to the reactors at Fukushima | Civilians and security forces gather at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
HILLAH, Iraq: A suicide truck bomb attack claimed by Daesh (ISIS) killed 47 people at a crowded checkpoint south of Baghdad Sunday, the deadliest attack in Iraq this year.
The truck exploded at a crowded checkpoint near the Babylonian Ruins, in Hillah, Iraq, south of Baghdad around noon local time.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's Interior Ministry announced that the army in cooperation with volunteers from Babylon, liberated Gazai area of the Jurf al-Sakar in the Northwest of Hillah, after killing 36 militants from the ISIL and rescuing 8 unarmed civilians who were used by the terrorist group as human shields.