Samarra definitions

sə-mär'ə
A city of north-central Iraq on the Tigris River north-northwest of Baghdad. The capital of the Arabic Abbasid dynasty in the 800s, today it is a pilgrimage center for Shiite Muslims.
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Alternative form of simar.
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Sentence Examples

  • Small sailing craft navigate upwards as far as Samarra; above this all navigation is downward, and by raft.

  • Of these canals the best known, and probably the greatest, was the Nahrawan, which, leaving the Tigris, on its eastern side, above Samarra, over loo m.

  • A little south of Samarra the stony plateau of Mesopotamia ends, and the alluvial plain of Irak, ancient Babylonia, begins.

  • son of Ardashir I., formerly important, but now relatively insignificant; Samarra, also called Samira, the capital of the caliphate from A.D.

  • A little south of Samarra are found remains of the Median Wall, which stretched south-west towards the Euphrates near Sahlawych, marking the edge of the Babylonian alluvial plain.

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