Jarjaraya

Jarjarāyā was a city of medieval Iraq, surrounded by a meander of the Tigris.

Capital of the district of Lower Nahrawan, it was inhabited by Persian nobles, according to Ya'qubi.

[1] This has been taken to assume that Jarjaraya was founded in the Sasanian period, if not earlier.

[2] By the time of Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 1200s, however, the town was in ruins.

[3] Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was abandoned by the end of the Abbasid period.