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Samarra

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Samarra (sämär`rä), town, N central Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is on the site of an ancient settlement and has given its name to a type of Neolithic pottery of the 5th millennium B.C. The present town was founded (836) by the Abbasid Abbasid (əbă`sĭd, ă`bəsĭd) or Abbaside
..... Click the link for more information.  caliphs. Samarra's 17th-century, golden-domed mosque complex, sacred to Shiite Muslims as the burial site of the 10th and 11th imams and the site of the disappearance of the 12th ("hidden") imam, was devastated by a terrorist bombing in 2006. There are notable ruins of many palaces, mosques, and other buildings, including the 9th-century great mosque with its spiral minaret. The town was the scene of fierce fighting between Sunni insurgents and U.S. occupation forces in 2004.
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The same is true along a necklace of Sunni towns south of the capital, in an area that is predominantly Shiite; in mixed Sunni-Shiite towns such as Samarra, the largest city of predominantly Sunni Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad; and in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad.
Apocalypse not: much of Washington assumes that leaving Iraq will ... by Dreyfuss, Robert / Washington Monthly
Set a couple of years ago when things weren't even as messy as they are now, "Situation" charts the efforts of American journalist Anna Molyneux (Connie Nielsen) to get to the bottom of the Army-involved drowning of a teenager in the volatile city of Samarra.
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Last February, a revered Shia mosque in the city of Samarra was bombed.
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