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Samarra is the biggest archaeological site in the world: located 125km (60 miles) upstream from Baghdad, its ruins cover a length of nearly 50km along one bank of the Tigris, and 8km at their maximum width. The built-up area extended to about 57km2 of ruins, spread over a region of about 150km2. In total, 6,314 constructions have been registered on the site, only 9 of which “have any meaningful vertical dimension to record” (see Northedge’s article in the Encyclopædia of Islam).
Most of these 9 can be dated to several construction phases within the 56-year period between 836 and 892, when Samarra was the official caliphal residence for the Abbasid Caliph and court retinue, and cantonment for his Turkish troops and guards. The period 836-892, when we know the site was occupied, has been called the “Samarra horizon” (q.v.), and traditionally archaeological finds from the site have been dated to within this short period.
However, the site was occupied much earlier than this: it was the site of a Sasanian settlement, and the major water distribution systems which supplied Samarra to some extent, the Nahrawan canal and the Nahr Isa (which formed the boundaries of the city on the East and West banks of the Tigris), were built by Shah Khusraw Anushirvan in the early C6th. Harun al-Rashid started to build an octagonal walled city, known as al-Qadisiyya, to the south of the city, supposedly when he tired of Baghdad, but it was never finished.
The geographer Yaqut says that a total of 294 million dirhams was spent on the construction of palaces at Samarra, and he lists 19 palaces that al-Mutawakkil supposedly built (however, there is a problem in his text over what counts as a palace). The largest of them all, built by al-Mu’tasim but much modified and rebuilt by later Caliphs who continued to use it as their main residence and audience hall, was the Dar al-Khilafa or Jawsaq al-Khaqani, whose walls enclosed a total area of 175 hectares, 71 of which comprised gardens along the Tigris. A monumental flight of stairs 60m wide rose up the cliff from the coast of the Tigris to the Bab al-Amma which was the main reception area of the palace; beyond this was a courtyard 380m long with residential quarters all around it. The barracks beside it to the north would have accommodated an estimated 3000 of al-Mu’tasim’s guards, and even that is only allowing for one storey.
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Have a dream of my friends on this site, meeting for a dinner cooked by us all, lots of laughter, fellowship, prayer, etc., also somex seeing the lovely arabian farms in Dubai. Perhaps this will come to pass. xxxooo me
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Nice one YS. Then 10 years later we all meet for some Mazgoof and Farida beer on the banks of the river tigris in Baghdad. A free and peaceful Baghdad.
Baghdad as stated has a persian meaning, but with a twist, i.e. Bagh means garden but Dad means justics, so the complete name is the Garden of Justice, although all over history this city has never seen justice. Also I agree with suggested meaning for Iraq, which means something with lots of roots, it is beleived that the name is based on the number of the major and minor rivers flowing in Iraq.
yes you are right and also the other meaning of iraq is that it is respected around the world by its civilization that it was started 8000 years ago and also iraq originally not by its political borders no no no no, it is originally very large land that it was stolen by those syrians and the turkey and kurds and the iranians because they know it is very important land.
Zorba Dude!! I strongly advise that you visit your local Springfield physician at the earliest opportunity. Your homorsimpsonitus condition.....its getting worse!!
Thanks LOB, when I need advice i will definetly come to you next time. There was no bloody Iraq 8000 years ago. Am I been taught different history than anyone else.
Better get back on the ouzo run, coming to join me, or drink on my own?
i said it's civilization started 8000 years ago and a very oldest culture in the world, iraq name came before 1400 years ago at the time when the arabs start using it get that through head.
i said it's civilization started 8000 years ago and a very oldest culture in the world, iraq name came before 1400 years ago at the time when the arabs start using it get that through head.
Dude. Thanks for this valuable info. Even though we are Iraqi, none of us know much about our history so we need obvious facts like these to be continually pointed out to us by the resident expert.
Thanks too for obliterating the order of threads so we have to sift through the pages to get back to our original train of thought. If your objective was to make sure we waste our time then you succeeded. BRAVO!
you have to know one thing in your life that you mesopotamians have the best land in the world allah the mighty god blessed you with it and the best characters in the world and the most famous and there are many things about mesopotamia to say in your lovely and wonderful land (THE LAND OF THE PROPHETS OF ALLAH THE MIGHTY GOD) it is means prophets (messengers) or you could say mesopotamian prophets, AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
long live mesopotamia the cradle of human civilizations.
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