Samarra

Samarra is a city in 's . In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.
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  • Type: City with 308,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Saimarreh”, “Samarra‘”, “Sāmarrah”, “مدينة العسكريين”, and “مدينة سامراء”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of Samarra and Al-Askari Shrine.

Archaeological site
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The or Al-Malwiya Mosque is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, in Samarra, in the of .

Mosque
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The , also known as the 'Askariyya Shrine and the Al-Askari Mosque, is the mausoleums of the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams, Ali al-Hadi and Ḥasan al- Askari, located in the city of Samarra, Saladin Governorate of Iraq.

Tower
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The Great Mosque of Samarra or Al-Malwiya Mosque is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, in Samarra, in the of .

Samarra

Latitude
34.1957° or 34° 11′ 45″ north
Longitude
43.8893° or 43° 53′ 21″ east
Population
308,000
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ SAM
Open location code
8H655VWQ+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1537951448
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
91597
Wiki­data ID
Q170047
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Samarra” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الكافي”
  • Arabic: “المهدي عند الشيعة”
  • Arabic: “سامراء”
  • Arabic: “سامراء|”
  • Arabic: “سامرائ”
  • Arabic: “سر من رأى”
  • Arabic: “مرقدي الإمامين علي الهادي والحسن العسكري”
  • Arabic: “واسألوا أهل الذكر”
  • Armenian: “Սամարա”
  • Armenian: “Սամարրա”
  • Asturian: “Samarra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samərra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səmərra”
  • Bashkir: “Сәмәррә”
  • Basque: “Samarra”
  • Belarusian: “Самара (Ірак)”
  • Belarusian: “Самара”
  • Bengali: “সামাররা”
  • Bengali: “সামারা”
  • Bengali: “স্যামাররা”
  • Bulgarian: “Самара”
  • Burmese: “ဆမ်မာရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cultura de Samarra”
  • Catalan: “Samarra”
  • Cebuano: “Sāmarrā‘”
  • Cebuano: “Sāmarrā’”
  • Central Kurdish: “سامەڕا”
  • Chinese: “萨迈拉”
  • Chinese: “薩邁拉”
  • Croatian: “Samarra”
  • Czech: “Samarra”
  • Czech: “Sámarrá”
  • Dagbani: “Samarra”
  • Danish: “Samarra”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Samarra”
  • Dutch: “Samarra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سامرا”
  • Esperanto: “Samaro”
  • Esperanto: “Samarra”
  • Estonian: “Sāmarrā‘”
  • Estonian: “Sāmarrā’”
  • Estonian: “Samarra”
  • Fanti: “Samarra”
  • Farefare: “Samarra”
  • Finnish: “Samarra”
  • French: “Samarra”
  • French: “Sāmarrā”
  • French: “Ville archéologique de Samarra”
  • Galician: “Samarra”
  • Georgian: “სამარა”
  • German: “Samarra”
  • German: “Sāmarra”
  • Greek: “Σαμάρα”
  • Greek: “Σαμάρρα”
  • Gujarati: “સમારા”
  • Hebrew: “סאמארא”
  • Hebrew: “סאמרא”
  • Hebrew: “סמארא”
  • Hebrew: “סמראא”
  • Hindi: “समारा”
  • Hindi: “सामर्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Szamarra”
  • Indonesian: “Samarra”
  • Indonesian: “Samarrah”
  • Interlingua: “Samarra”
  • Irish: “Samarra”
  • Italian: “Samarra”
  • Japanese: “サーマッラー”
  • Japanese: “サマラ文化 (銅器時代)”
  • Kannada: “ಸಮರ”
  • Kashmiri: “سامرا”
  • Kazakh: “Samarra”
  • Kazakh: “Самарра”
  • Kazakh: “ساماررا”
  • Korean: “사마라”
  • Kurdish: “Samerra”
  • Kurdish: “Semara”
  • Latin: “Samarra”
  • Latin: “Suma”
  • Latvian: “Samara”
  • Latvian: “Samarra”
  • Latvian: “Sāmarra”
  • Lithuanian: “Samara”
  • Lombard: “Samarra”
  • Lombard: “سامرّاء”
  • Macedonian: “Самара”
  • Malay: “Samarra”
  • Maltese: “Samarra”
  • Marathi: “समरा”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرا، عراق”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرا”
  • Mongolian: “Самарра”
  • Mossi: “Samarra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samarra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samarra”
  • Norwegian: “Samarra”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਮਰਾ”
  • Persian: “سامرا، عراق”
  • Persian: “سامرا”
  • Persian: “سامره”
  • Polish: “Samarra”
  • Portuguese: “Samarra”
  • Romanian: “Samarra”
  • Russian: “Самарра”
  • Saraiki: “سامرا”
  • Scots: “Samarra”
  • Serbian: “Самара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samarra”
  • Silesian: “Samarra”
  • Sinhala: “සමර්රා”
  • Slovak: “Sámarrá’”
  • Slovak: “Samarra”
  • Slovenian: “Samara, Irak”
  • Slovenian: “Samara”
  • Spanish: “ciudad arqueologica de Samarra”
  • Spanish: “ciudad arqueológica de Samarra”
  • Spanish: “Samarra”
  • Swedish: “Sāmarrā‘”
  • Swedish: “Samarra”
  • Swedish: “Samarrah”
  • Tajik: “Сомарро”
  • Tamil: “சாமரா”
  • Tamil: “சாமர்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Самәрраэ”
  • Telugu: “సమర్రా”
  • Thai: “ซามัรรออ์”
  • Thai: “ซามารา”
  • Turkish: “Samarra”
  • Turkish: “Samerra”
  • Turkish: “Semarra”
  • Turkish: “Semerra”
  • Twi: “Samarra na ɔkyerɛwee”
  • Ukrainian: “Самарра”
  • Urdu: “سامراء”
  • Uzbek: “Samarra”
  • Venetian: “Samarra”
  • Vietnamese: “Samarra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Samarra”
  • Welsh: “Samarra”
  • Western Frisian: “Samarra”
  • Western Panjabi: “سامارا”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨迈拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩邁拉”

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