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ID: 7002480
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002480
Record Type:
administrative
Sāmarrā' (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 11 45 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.1950
decimal degrees
Long: 043 53 08 E
degrees minutes
Long: 43.8850
decimal degrees
Note:
Royal city founded in 836 BCE, located 70 miles north of Baghdad and an important stop on the Silk Road. Nearby are the Imam Ali al-Naqi and Imam Hasan al-Askari Shrines, completed in 1905 by the Ottomans.
Names:
Sāmarrā'
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Samarra
(
C
,
V
)
Sāmarrā
(
C
,
V
)
Sumere
(
H
,
V
)
سامراء
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al-ʻIrāq
(nation) (
P
)
............
Şalāḩ ad Dīn
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Sāmarrā'
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 836 BCE
Related geographic places:
located on ....
Silk Road
.......... (road)
..................
(World) [7031416]
Sources and Contributors:
سامراء..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 February 2016
Sāmarrā'..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 February 2016
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I 153
Samarra..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
355
Sāmarrā..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
169
Sumere..........
[
VP
]
.................
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 2 March 2020
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 February 2016
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I 153
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
169
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
355
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........
UNESCO: Silk Road (2016-)
accessed 23 February 2016
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