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but settlement in the area likely dates back to at least the Seleucid period. Hatra flourished under the Parthians, during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, as a religious and trading center. Later on, the city became the capital of possibly the first Arab ruled Kingdom in the chain of largely Arab controlled cities running from Hatra, in the northeast, via Palmyra, Baalbek and

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