Samarra, Iraq XAWF

Samarra, Saladin Governorate, Iraq. Once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century CE. The famous spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra was built in 847 CE by Caliph al-Mutawakkil. The city went into rapid decline after the collapse of the Abbasid empire, but remains a place of pilgrimage for Muslims

Abbasid Caliph Caliphate Collapse Decline Governorate Iraq Minaret Muslims Pilgrimage Rapid Saladin Samarra Spiral

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