Ḥarbá (Extinct city)

found: Work cat: 2010315661: Madīnat Ḥarbá al-Islāmiyah, 2007:t.p. (Madīnat Ḥarbá) p. 13 (It is believed that the city Madīnat Ḥarbá was one of the pre-Islamic cities in Iraq in the era of Kasrá of Ano-Shurwan 597-531 and was one of the important cities in the era of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Another name for this city mentioned in Muʻjam al-buldān is Akhnūnīyah.)

found: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition online viewed April 25th, 2019:(Ḥarbāʾ , a ruined city in ʿIrāḳ, pre-Muslim (and possibly Babylonian) in origin, and situated south-west of Balad on the west bank of the Shuṭayṭ which is a former bed of the river Tigris: 34°3ʹN.,44°10ʹE. It was known to the Sāsānids and their Arab successors in ʿIrāḳ, as also to the Arab geographers Yaʿḳūbī, Masʿūdī, Yāḳūtand to Ṭabarī. The crossing of the Tigris by troops of the Khāridjī leader Shabīb in 76/696, operating against al-Ḥadjdjādj, was near this spot. The city at that period or later was known for its textile and (probably) pottery manufacture. A great irrigation or river-reclamation work was carried out here by the caliph al-Mustanṣir in 629/1232, and the existing Dudjayl channel, and the great four-arch Ḥarbāʾ bridge, 24 m. long and 12 m. broad...)

found: Muʻjam al-buldān, Databases LC online resources, April 25th, 2019:p. 237 ( Ḥarbá small city between Baghdād and Tikrīt was known for its textiles)