التطور المورفولوجي لمدينة عنة

الملخص EN

Iraq contains between its pagans many cities with historical roots and the city of Ana- the subject of the study- is one of these cities, which is one of the oldest places that man has ever seen in western Iraq before the advent of Babylonian civilization, so this research highlights towards this city by reviewing the most important stages of morphology that the city has gone through.

And it focuses on clarifying the most important advantages of each of these stages, especially the first historical phase of the city because most of the studies shed light on the other stages without going through the first stage, which is of great importance because it is the one that gave its inhabitants the personality that they are characterized by, and they have reflected their impact on all subsequent stages despite the change of location.

This study is important because it sheds light on a unique experience, a city with historical roots and its location is changed to another location, and this is rare to occur except in special cases, and this made the city go through (4) morphological stages.

Hence, the study shows the morphological study of the city that there are factors contributed to its origin such as natural, political, urban and religious factors.

The first stage was characterized by lack of planning and random growth along the Euphrates River, but the later stages change the location of the city and the city is going through a new phase and the transition from organic structure to network over time, the first phase affects and shows its reflections and its repercussions clearly on the later stages, and with the increase of its population begins to expand and grow like a living organism and in a dynamic movement that does not stop, which dominates the city at each stage with characteristics and features that are different from other stages, so the city began to grow significantly in its contemporary stage, as the area of the city increased the new planned city from (160) hectares to (830) hectares and increased the area of all uses and with the number of neighborhoods from ( 4) to (9), and it shows in the last stage a trend towards a new type of housing that is public housing and this city is heading towards important development projects, as well as its important location near the border and on the external roads.

All this will lead to having this city occupying an important position in the map of Iraq.