سامراء في كتابات البلدانيين و الرحالة المسلمين

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Military plans and their movements required the construction of cities and camps to be used as military bases from which to start from these military forces out or to fortify inside these bases.

This has been followed by the Arabic Islamic state in both east and west in building and expanding the cities, but due to various factors, these cities became centers of the triumph and administration as well as being intellectual garish flares ; Among those cities was (Samarra) city which lies in the southeast of the Tigris river between Baghdad and Tikrit.

This city has left a clear impact in all spheres of life, and therefore this study aims at shedding light on that city in the writings of the natives and Muslims explorers, and to write down the information that these people dealt with about the city according to the historical corpus they cited in their writings, as one of the Islamic cities that was destined to witness prominent events in the history of Muslims after its establishment by Al-Mu’tasim Al-Abbasi during the period (218-227 AH / 833-841 AD) in the year 221 AH/835AD in which this city was taken as the capital of the Abbasi State.

The city was inhabited by eight caliphs until the death of Al-Mu'tamid Billah in the year (279 AH / 892 AD).