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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) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. [1]
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892.
Oct 3, 2024 · Samarra is a town in the Salah al-Din governorate, in central Iraq. From 836 to 892 CE it was the capital of the Abbasid empire. It is a pilgrimage center for Shi’i Muslims and the site of the shrine to Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the 11th and 12th imams.
Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century.
The caliph al-Mutawakkil constructed a new congregational mosque and a large palace complex, called Balkuwara, for his son al-Muʿtazz. He then founded an entirely new imperial city called Mutawakkiliyya immediately to the north of Samarra.
Sāmarrā (Arabic, سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques, gardens, and ruins of royal palaces extending 5.6 miles by 21.1 miles along the Tigris River, Samarra is one of four Islamic holy cities in Iraq.
Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city which ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century.
Samarra has the best preserved plan of an ancient large city, being abandoned relatively early and so avoiding the constant rebuilding of longer lasting cities. Samarra was the second capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after Baghdad.
The city of Samarra was the ninth-century capital of the Abbasid caliphate of Iraq for nearly fifty years. It is doubly significant as the site of an early Islamic capital and as one of the largest archaeological ruins in the world: the traces of the Abbasid city stretch for some forty kilometers along the Tigris.
Apr 8, 2024 · Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tasimThe archeological site of Samarra still retains much of the historic city’s original plan, architecture and artistic relics.
