Samarra

[ suh-mahr-uh ]

noun

1. a town in central Iraq, on the Tigris: seat of the early Abassid caliphs.

Example Sentences

Associate art director Samarra Khaja, a longtime vegetarian, admitted that “a regular hot dog generally skeeves me out,” but she would buy her Field Roast Signature Stadium Dogs again.

From Salon

She is a Sunni Muslim, from the religiously mixed area around Samarra about two hours north of Iraq’s capital, and at first the fighting did not touch her.

From New York Times

But back in Samarra, her fathers’ four brothers were kidnapped by anti-American Sunni insurgents.

From New York Times

When Noor was 11, the family returned to Samarra to put flowers on her uncle’s grave.

From New York Times

They recently rode to Samarra, where one of the worst sectarian attacks of the war happened in 2006, a bombing that damaged the city’s 1,000-year-old grand mosque.

From Seattle Times