The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Samarra
Also known as Samara, Sermen-rai, Residence of Motassem
- city
- Abbasid Islamic
The Abbasid palace-city founded as a new residence for the caliphs, which Gibbon calls Samara or Sermen-rai. It was a vast planned capital of courts, barracks, and ceremonial avenues on the Tigris.
- Type
- city
- Style
- Abbasid Islamic
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 242
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The Abbasid palace-city founded as a new residence for the caliphs, which Gibbon calls Samara or Sermen-rai. It was a vast planned capital of courts, barracks, and ceremonial avenues on the Tigris.
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