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.x
Samarra
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Noun
(plural samarras)
- Alternative form of simar.
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