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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] In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700. [citation needed] During the Iraqi Civil War, Samarra was in the "Sunni Triangle" of resistance.
The quotation above comes from a poem by Ali ibn al-Jahm celebrating one of the many palaces built in the city of Samarra, the capital of the Abbasid Empire from 836 to 892 C.E. [1] The Abbasid caliphs spared no expense to build a palatial city of grand buildings and sprawling residential complexes, defined by their monumental scale and ...
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.
Samarra, town, Salah al-Din muhafazah (governorate), central Iraq. From 836 to 892 it was the capital of the Abbasid empire. It is a pilgrimage centre for Shi’i Muslims and the site of the shrine to Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the 11th and 12th imams.
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Capital: Baghdad. Region: Arab States. Route: Land. The ancient capital of Samarra dating from 836-892 provides outstanding evidence of the Abbasid Caliphate which was the major Islamic empire of the period, extending from Tunisia to Central Asia.
Samarra Archaeological City comprises the remains of an ancient large city that was a capital of the Abbasid Empire. It testifies to the architectural and artistic innovations that developed there and spread to the other regions of the Islamic world, such as carved stucco and a new type of ceramic.
