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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of central Iraq on a branch of the Euphrates River south of Baghdad. It was built c. 1100, largely of material salvaged from the nearby ruins of Babylon.

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  • The worst attacks took place just south of Baghdad in Hillah, where at least 50 people died after a pair of car bombs exploded at a factory, luring over rescuers and onlookers, many of whom were then killed by a suicide bomber.

    Blasts kill 5 in Baghdad neighborhood 2010

  • Slovakia had a 100-soldier engineering unit serving with the Multinational Division Central South, based in Hillah, Iraq

    Think Progress » Tony Snow Attacks President Carter 2006

  • You know, we were lucky enough to spend the day out in the southern part of Baghdad called Hillah, just south of Baghdad, rather, a few months ago.

    CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009 2009

  • He mentioned that just yesterday he had been to a mass grave site in Hillah, which is south here of Baghdad, and said that there was no question that that kind of tyranny has been -- has been abolished and that it is a much better day for Iraq, although he did mention the challenges ahead.

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2004 2004

  • It is about 60 miles south of Baghdad, a town called Hillah, just east of Karbala.

    CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003 2003

  • And another soldier died 100 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital in a town called Hillah -- Bill.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003 2003

  • Another U.S. soldier was killed in Hillah, which is a town about 100 kilometers or about an hour's drive south of the Iraqi capital.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003 2003

  • The bombs targeted Shiite pilgrims who had gathered near a bus station in downtown Hillah, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Karbala.

    TheState.com: The Buzz 2009

  • The bombs targeted Shiite pilgrims who had gathered near a bus station in downtown Hillah, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Karbala.

    TheState.com: The Buzz 2009

  • The bombs targeted Shiite pilgrims who had gathered near a bus station in downtown Hillah, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Karbala.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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