Samarra
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How it came to be
In 836 the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim founded Samarra on the Tigris as a new capital and military base. He housed his guard regiments, many of them Turks and others recruited from Central Asia and Iran, in garrison settlements around his palaces.
Caliph al-Mutawakkil built the Great Mosque in 848–851, then the largest in the world, with the 52-metre spiral Malwiya minaret. Al-Mu'tadid moved the capital back to Baghdad in 892. The site was placed on the Danger List when inscribed in 2007.
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