Kulwatha

Kulwatha (Arabic: كلواذا‎‎) also called Kulwathi is an ancient city mentioned in the writings of Greeks and the Arabs, Syriacs historians, was located on the east bank of the Tigris River and was built opposite which the other bank of the city of Baghdad (Karkh now), in ancient there gate named Kulawatha gate, today this city is part of Al-Rusafa and called Karrada, the city built in the Babylonian era, and is rumored that the Chaldeans built after the fall of Babylon in fourth century BC according to Diodorus Siculus he said, while the effects indicate that it was built in the time of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC), jews also inhabited in Kulwatha and they have history from city, The most prominent historians who spoke about this city Diodorus Siculus, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Al-Masudi, Said al-Andalusi and Bar Hebraeus.