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Samarra

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Saladin Governorate, Iraq
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About Samarra

Samarra is a metropolis in Iraq. It stands on the east financial institution of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, one hundred twenty five kilometers north of Baghdad. In 2003 the town had an anticipated populace of 348,seven-hundred. Samarra changed into once within the "Sunni Triangle" of violence during the sectarian violence in Iraq. In the medieval instances, Samarra become the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and the handiest closing Islamic capital that keeps its unique plan, structure and creative relics. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one in every of its World Heritage Sites.

The remains of prehistoric Samarra had been first excavated among 1911 and 1914 by using the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld. Samarra became the kind site for the Samarra culture. Since 1946, the notebooks, letters, unpublished excavation reviews and pictures were inside the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The civilization flourished along the Ubaid period, as one of the first metropolis states within the Near East. It lasted from 5,500 BCE and finally collapsed in 3,900 BCE.

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