ANA, or ANAH, a town of Arabian Irak, or pachalich of Baghdad, which extends five or six miles along the western bank of the Euphrates. It consists of a single street built on both sides. The houses are of stone, two stories high, and separated from each other, as in other eastern towns, by beautiful gardens filled with fruit-trees, bearing lemons, oranges, citrons, quinces, figs, dates, pomegranates, and olives. It is an open and defenceless place, and in 1807 was plundered by the Wahabees, who massacred the greater part of the inhabitants, and set the town on fire; after which they retreated with their plunder, carrying into captivity many women and children. The inhabitants, previous to this calamity, are said to have been more polished than those in the neighbourhood, and to have consisted chiefly of Arabs, who were, however, addicted to their usual vocation of robbery when any opportunity presented. Pop. about 2000. 260 miles east of Damascus; 220 south-east of Aleppo. Long. 41. 47 E. Lat. 34. 10. N. It is the ancient Hadith.