Ahwar of Southern Iraq
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How it came to be
Wetlands near the lower Tigris and Euphrates hosted early Sumerian cities. Eridu is thought to date from around 5400 BC, and Uruk and Ur later grew nearby. Three of the property's seven components are these city sites.
In the 1990s Saddam Hussein's government drained most of the marshes to deny cover to opponents. After 2003 local people broke the dikes and water returned. UNESCO listed the four marshes and three cities together in 2016.
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