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ID: 7002480
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002480
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sāmarrā' (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Iraq (nation)  ........  Iraq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Şalāḩ ad Dīn (governorate)  ............  Şalāḩ ad Dīn (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Sāmarrā' (inhabited place)  ................  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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