Samarra - Wikipedia
WEBSamarra (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 | Iraq, Mosques, & History | Britannica
WEBSamarra, 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.
Abbasid Samarra - Wikipedia
WEBSamarra 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 briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers along the east bank of the Tigris , but was largely abandoned in the latter half of the 9th century, especially following the ...
Samarra, a palatial city - Smarthistory
WEBThe ingenious use of extant forms of glass and the application of novel glazing technologies in the architectural ornament of Samarra’s palaces reflects the status of Iraq in the early Abbasid period as the center of a major world empire with a robust economy and thriving intellectual culture.
Samarra Rises | Smithsonian
WEBSamarra Rises. In Iraq, the restoration of the shattered Mosque of the Golden Dome brings together Sunnis and Shiites in an unlikely alliance. Joshua Hammer. Contributing writer. January 2009....
Samarra: Abbasid capital | Heritage of the Middle East - Culture
WEBSome 125 km from Baghdad, in Iraq, is one of the best-preserved medieval towns: Samarra. From a microsociety of soldiers, the city became a Muslim capital in the 8 th and 9 th centuries, thanks to the successive presence of eight caliphates.
Samarra - New World Encyclopedia
WEBSāmarrā (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.
Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879–1948) in Samarra | Essay | The …
WEBThe modern world owes its knowledge of the art and architecture of Abbasid Samarra to the pioneering archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld. Samarra, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, was founded in 836, when the Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘tasim (r. 833–42) moved his capital there from Baghdad.
Authority > Samarra - Archnet
WEBThe 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.
Samarra Archaeological City | Silk Roads Programme - UNESCO
WEBCapital: 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.
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