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The Battle of Samarra, also called Operation Baton Rouge, took place in 2004 during the Iraq War. The city of Samarra in central Iraq had fallen under the control of insurgents shortly after insurgents had seized control of Fallujah and Ramadi. In preparation for an offensive to retake Fallujah, on 1 October, 5,000 American and Iraqi troops ...
Samarra (Arabic: سَامَرَّاء, Sāmarrāʾ) is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. [1]
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers along the east bank of the Tigris, but was largely abandoned in the latter half of the 9th century, especially following the return of the caliphs to Baghdad.
Samara [a], formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule, is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia.The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, [15] up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated.
Great mosque, Samarra, was built during the caliphate of al-Mutawakkil. It is the largest mosque in the world. Built entirely of brick within a wall flanked with towers, it has a 55 m high minaret with a spiral ramp that recalls the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. ^ "The city of Samarra was built during the Mu'tokul Abbasid period".
National Route 160. National Route 934. Sámara is located approximately 35 km from Nicoya, the economic and administrative hub of the region. Access to Sámara is via paved roads. The paving of the final 35 km of the drive, Route 150 from Nicoya to Sámara on through to Carrillo was completed in early 2006. Public buses operate between Sámara ...
The Rook Residential Complex or RRC is called the tallest building in Samara. It is located just 300 meters (0.3 km) from the Volga River and consists of three residential buildings, two of which have 25 floors and one - 18. The construction of the complex with all the adjacent infrastructure began in 2002, and already in 2004 Rook hosted the ...
The Samara (Russian: Сама́ра, IPA: [sɐˈmarə]) is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the Volga at the city of Samara. [1] Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel. [2] It is 594 kilometres (369 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 46,500 square kilometres (18,000 sq mi). [3]