Tikrit
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tikrit-170-6903060
title:
Tikrit
text:
Tikrit is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers (87 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers (140 mi) southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. As of 2012, it had a population of approximately 160,000. Originally a fort during the Assyrian empire, Tikrit became the birthplace of Muslim military leader Saladin. Tikrit wasn't Saddam Hussein's birthplace, as wrongly known. Saddam Hussein's birthplace was in a modest village south of Tikr
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
City in Saladin, Iraq
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikrit
date created:
2003-03-22T19:31:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:38:19Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Tikrit_Palace.jpg","width":640,"height":480}
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13
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