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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Topic: Wonders of Iraq Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 07:12 |
Kisra Palace, south of Baghdad
It has still the worlds largest single span (about 40 meters high, 50 meters deep and 25 meters wide)
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 07:14 |
Samarra's Minaret
Inspired from the ancient Babylonian Ziggurats, the 1200 years old minaret of Samarra is really one the greatest building in Iraq.
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 07:36 |
Nice pictures Cyrus,thank you for sharing these with us.
Kisra palace is realy impressive you can see how the Persian architecture is great.
there was a story about it happened in Abbasid era,during the Building of Baghdad a lack in brick affect the construction of the new city,caliph al-Mansur call his assitants among them Khaled bin Barmak,all of them told the Caliph destroy the Taq of Kisra to get the brick he need except Khaled who said that the cost of destruction will cost him too much and the brick will be very costly for him as well as the moving fees,but al-mansur respond to Khaled was "you can't forget your great ancestors" Khaled accept the fact but after that al-Mansur saw that Khaled opinion was 100% right as well as he was very miser,he stopped the destruction,and the Taq survived.
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 08:06 |
Thanks for your nice story!
Kassite Ziggurat of Aqarquf, west of Baghdad It was built by the Kassite king Kurigalzu II in the 15th century BC.
Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 16-Apr-2007 at 08:09
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 12:37 |
Magnificent monuments, especialy the first two.
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 13:15 |
Just a damn shame how a lot of Iraq's treasures have gone to waste or have been pilfered.
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 14:09 |
Hatra city,north of Iraq near Mousel,a vassel state to the parthian empire,it was a very fortified city and withstood repeated attacks by the Roman empire.
the temple of the sun
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 14:13 |
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Posted: 16-Apr-2007 at 16:25 |
Hatra's amazing, it, along with Ctesiphon are my favourite sites in Iraq - I hope to visit them one day.
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Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 03:37 |
Wonderfull ,simply wonderfull.
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Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 17:33 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Kassite Ziggurat of Aqarquf, west of Baghdad It was built by the Kassite king Kurigalzu II in the 15th century BC.
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WOW! Can you kindly give some more information about this building? Amazing!
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Posted: 19-Apr-2007 at 07:02 |
Originally posted by Anton
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Kassite Ziggurat of Aqarquf, west of Baghdad It was built by the Kassite king Kurigalzu II in the 15th century BC.
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WOW! Can you kindly give some more information about this building? Amazing!
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I hope this link will help you
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Posted: 13-May-2007 at 07:52 |
Wow... I have seen some of these when I was really really young... wish I could go and see'm again one day....
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