Samarra

See also: samarra

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَامَرَّاء‎ (sāmarrāʾ).

Proper noun

Samarra

  1. A city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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