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Samarra (Arabic: سَامَرَّاء,
Sāmarrāʾ) is a city in Iraq. It
stands on the east bank of the
Tigris in the
Saladin Governorate, 125
kilometers (78 mi)...
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Samarra is a city in
central Iraq,
which served as the
capital of the
Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892.
Founded by the
caliph al-Mu'tasim,
Samarra was...
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Samarra (Arabic: جَامِع سَامَرَّاء ٱلْكَبِيْر, romanized: Jāmiʿ
Sāmarrāʾ al-Kabīr, Arabic: مَسْجِد سَامَرَّاء ٱلْكَبِيْر, romanized: Masjid
Sāmarrāʾ al-Kabīr...
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Samarra Tell
Shemshara Tell es-Sawwan The
Samarra culture is a Late
Neolithic archaeological culture of
northern Mesopotamia,
roughly dated to between...
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Appointment in
Samarra,
published in 1934, is the
first novel by
American writer John O'Hara (1905–1970). It
concerns the self-destruction of the fictional...
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Anarchy at
Samarra (Arabic: فوضى سامراء, romanized: fawḍā
Sāmarrāʾ) was a
period of
extreme internal instability from 861 to 870 in the
history of...
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madrasas in
Samarra to "protect the ****s from the
tricks of the
heretics [Shias]". In 1893, when
chaos began to
spread across Samarra due to sectarian...
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politics until he was
summoned around 848 from
Medina to the
capital Samarra by the
Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861),
known for his hostility...
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Governorate contains a
number of
important religious and
cultural sites.
Samarra, the governorate's
largest city, is home to both the Al-Askari
Shrine (an...
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Samarra Barrage (Arabic: سد سامَرّاء) is a multi-purpose
barrage on the
Tigris River adjacent (west) of
Samarra and
north of Baghdad, Iraq. The main...
