Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Samarra Archaeological City' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| This article is about the city in Iraq. | WIKI |
| For the city in Russia and other uses, see Samara (disambiguation). | WIKI |
| City in Saladin Governorate, Iraq | WIKI |
| Samarra (Arabic: xd8xb3xd9x8exd8xa7xd9x85xd9x8exd8xb1xd9x8exd9x91xd8xa7xd8xa1xe2x80x8e, Sxc4x81marrxc4x81xcaxbe) is a city in Iraq. | WIKI |
| In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700. | WIKI |
| A supplementary canal, the Qatul Abi al-Jund, excavated by the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid, was commemorated by a planned city laid out in the form of a regular octagon (modern Husn al-Qadisiyya), called al-Mubarak and abandoned unfinished in 796. | WIKI |
| The city was further developed under Caliph al-Mutawakkil, who sponsored the construction of lavish palace complexes, such as al-Mutawakkiliyya, and the Great Mosque of Samarra with its famous spiral minaret or Malwiya, built in 847. | WIKI |
| The city declined but maintained a mint until the early 10th century. | WIKI |
| Its population returned to Baghdad and the city rapidly declined. | WIKI |
| The city is also home to al-Askari Shrine, containing the mausolea of the Imams Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Shixcaxbfi Imams, respectively, as well as the place from where Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the "Hidden Imam", reportedly went into The Occultation in the belief of the Twelver or Shias. | WIKI |
| Samarra is a key city in Saladin Governorate, a major part of the so-called Sunni Triangle where insurgents were active during the Iraq War. | WIKI |
| An indefinite curfew was placed on the city by the Iraqi police. | WIKI |
| Ever since the end of Iraqi civil war in 2007, the Shia population of the holy city has increased exponentially. | WIKI |
| In June 2014, the city was attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of the Northern Iraq offensive. | WIKI |
| Samarra has the best preserved plan of an ancient large city, being abandoned relatively early and so avoiding the constant rebuilding of longer lasting cities. | UNESCO |
| The city preserves two of the largest mosques (Al-Malwiya and Abu Dulaf) and the most unusual minarets, as well as the largest palaces in the Islamic world (the Caliphal Palace Qasr al-Khalifa, al-Ja'fari, al Ma'shuq, and others). | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii):xc2xa0 Samarra is the finest preserved example of the architecture and city planning of the Abbasid Caliphate, extending from Tunisia to Central Asia, and one of the world's great powers of that period. | UNESCO |
| After abandonment by the Caliphate, occupation continued in a few areas near the nucleus of the modern city but most of the remaining area was left untouched until the early 20th century. | UNESCO |