Samarra
Sāmarrā (Arabic: سامراء) is a town in Iraq. It is on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad Din Governorate, 125 km north of Baghdad. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 348,700 people.
Samarra is a city of culture and heritage. Samarra is home to the Malwiya Mosque Minerat. In 836 CE, the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mu'tasim founded a new capital at the banks of the Tigris. Here he built extensive palace complexes surrounded by garrison settlements for his guards, mostly drawn from Central Asia and Iran (most famously the Turks).
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Dirhem of al-Muntasir, AH 247-248
Remains of a circular pool surrounded by reception halls in the Dar al-Khilafa palace, built by Al-Mu῾tasim (r. 833–842)
Qasr al-'Ashiq, an Abbasid-era palace near Samarra
Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra
المسلمون احياء احدى الشعائر الدينية في المدينة
The Samarra bowl at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. The swastika in the center of the design is a reconstruction.
Chinese-made sancai pottery shard, 9th–10th century, found in Samarra, an example of Chinese influences on Islamic pottery. British Museum.
