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Samarra (Arabic: سَامَرَّاء, Sāmarrāʾ) is a city in Iraq. It
stands on the east bank of the
Tigris in the
Saladin Governorate, 125
kilometers (78 mi) north...
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until April 23, when the town of
Samarrah and its
railroad fell into
their hands.
Although it
achieved its aims, the
Samarrah offensive cost the
British about...
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Wayback Machine dstorm.eu. Retrieved: 7
April 2015. Cooper, Tom. "Operation
Samarrah",
October 2010.
Jenkins 1998, p. 47. U.S. Air
Force Historical Research...
- The 7th (Service)
Battalion of the
Gloucestershire Regiment (the 'Glosters') was a unit of 'Kitchener's Army'
raised immediately after the
outbreak of...
- Shia Islam. The site
attracts many
pilgrims annually. Al-Askari
Shrine in
Samarrah, Iraq,
contains the
tombs of the
tenth and
eleventh Twelver Imams, Ali...
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Struggle Second Ostend Raid
Battle of
Paardeberg Perak War
Battle of
Ratsua Samarrah Offensive Battle of
Sattelberg Second Battle of
Heligoland Bight Shah Wali...
- Sukkah 53a.5-6 (NB: The
Talmud was
compiled in the 5th
century while Samarrah was
founded in the 9th century; the
Talmudic version of the
story involves...
- (Persian: سامره عليا, also
Romanized as Sāmereh-ye ‘Olyā; also
known as
Samarrah and Sāmereh) is a
village in
Mahidasht Rural District,
Mahidasht District...
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gains in the region, in
particular Baghdad,
General Maude ordered the
Samarrah Offensive. To
maintain British control of Baghdad,
Maude outlined four...
- dry,
branched off from the Tigris. D'Anville
places the
bifurcation near
Samarrah, and
there he puts Apamea. But
Lynch (London Geog. Journal, vol. ix. p...
