Hīt
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This article is about the city. For the district, see Hīt (district).
| Hīt Arabic: هيت Heet |
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| — Town — | |
| Coordinates: 33°38′N 42°49′E / 33.633°N 42.817°ECoordinates: 33°38′N 42°49′E / 33.633°N 42.817°E | |
| Country | Iraq |
| Population (1980) | |
| - Total | 6,808 |
| Time zone | GMT+3 (UTC+3) |
Hīt or Heet (Arabic: هيت) is a city in al-Anbar province, Iraq. Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital, in the Sunni Triangle.
Hīt's population has been stated as 150,000.[citation needed]
On the Euphrates River, Hīt is a small walled town built on two mounds on the site of the ancient city of Is; bitumen wells in the vicinity have been utilized for at least 3,000 years and were used in the building of Babylon. The naturally occurring sulfur found in bitumen gives much of the area its rotten egg smell. Hīt is a marketplace for agricultural produce and oil pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea cross the Euphrates there. It was regarded as the head of navigation on the river before the decline in river traffic.[1]
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- ^ "Hīt". The New Encyclopædia Britannica. V. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. 1980. p. 66.
