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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On the technology side, learn about the hot new trend in the IT area of enterprise architecture and object-based storage devices (OSD) in Joe Straub and Kenneth Samarra's article, "OSD: The Future of Storage. Names of these three are as follows; Sayyid Muhammad Bahr al'Ulum, high-ranking 'ulama from al-Najaf; Mas'ud al-Barzani, leader of KDP; Hasan al-Naqib, Arab nationalist military officer from Samarra'. |
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