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The town is first mentioned in the Fall of Assyria Chronicle, as being a refuge for the Babylonian king Nabopolassar during his attack on the city of Assur in 615 BCE. Tikrit is usually identified with the Mesopotamian Birtha. As Tagrit, it was the seat of the Maphrian of the Monophysites. Over a thousand years ago, it possessed a fortress and a large Christian monastery. It was renowned as a centre for the production of woolen textiles. The Arab Uqaylid Dynasty took hold of Tikrit in 1036. Around 1138, the legendary Kurdish leader Saladin was born there; his many achievements include defending Egypt against the Christian Crusaders and recapturing Jerusalem in 1187. The modern province of which Tikrit is the capital is named after him. The town, and much of Iraq with it, was devastated in the 13th century by the Mongol invasion under Hulagu. Tikrit is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34.61N, 43.68E). The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative center of the province of Salah ad Din-
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Date Found: March 07, 2010
Date Produced: March 07, 2010
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March 25, 2010
Nice town....
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March 22, 2010
Aix-les-Bains is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.   It lies near the Lac du Bourget, 9 km (5.6 mi) by rail north of Chambéry. Aix derives from Latin Aquae (literally, waters; cf Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) or ...
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March 22, 2010
The chronicle of the county begins in 1120 when D. Teresa, queen of Portugal and fuss of Alfonso Henriques, donated to the nobleman Gonçalo Eris vast arrive. In instrument, the nobleman has undertaken to ready unresolved a lodge to alter the bust travellers.   The rivers Vouga, ...
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March 22, 2010
Albissola Marina is a comune (municipality) in the Orbit of Savona in the Italian location Liguria, placed virtually 35 km region of Genoa and almost 4 km northeast of Savona.   Albissola Marina was a resolution of the Ingauni (a nation of the Ligures), later conquered by the ...
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March 19, 2010
Die Sonne wird kräftiger, der Schnee schmilzt und das Vasertal, in der Nähe von Innsbruck, befreit sich langsam von der Schneelast. Der Frühling hält in Tirol Einzug und verwandelt die mit Eis und Schnee durchzogene Landschaft in einen zartgrünen Traum.
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