Samarra
Samarra is a city in Iraq's Baghdad Belts. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 349,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as: “Qaḑā Sāmarrā, Sāmarrā, Sāmarrā Qadhā, Qada Samarra, Samarra, Samarra Qadha”, “Saimarreh”, “Samarra - سامراء”, “Samarra‘”, and “Sāmarrah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Mosque of Samarra and Malwiya.
Great Mosque of Samarra
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was commissioned in 848 CE and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil.
Malwiya
Tower
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was commissioned in 848 CE and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil.
Samarra
- Categories: archaeological site, big city, and locality
- Location: Al-Daur District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Baghdad Belts, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2° or 34° 12′ northLongitude
43.9° or 43° 54′ eastPopulation
349,000Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)United Nations Location Code
IQ SAMOpen location code
8H656W22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 2480261764OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “סאמרה”
- 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: “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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