Samarra (irq)

Samarra

Samarra ranks 6,089th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Imabari, Ehime, Tukums, and Russian Empire. Memorable people born in Samarra include Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al-Muntasir, and Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun. Memorable people who died in Samarra include Muhammad al-Mahdi, Al-Battani, and Hasan al-Askari. Samarra has been the birth place of many politicians, and extremists and the death place of many religious figures, and physicians. Samarra is located in Iraq.

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'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700. During the Iraqi Civil War (2006-08), Samarra was in the "Sunni Triangle" of resistance. Read more on Wikipedia