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HATRA |
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| The ruins of Hatra lie about 80 km to the south west of Mosul. Two strong walls defending the city were built with hard, well-shaped stones strengthened with several rectangular towers. In addition, there is a wide and deep ditch encircling the outer walls. In the past time, the visitor had to enter the city through one of the four sophisticated entrances, soon after he should cross a bridge fixed over the outer ditch. In the center of the city, there is a great rectangular paved courtyard (437 x 322 m). In its north side, the visitor would find the main temple of Hatra, which was assigned to the god of the Sun (Shams). |
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AL-MUSTANSYRIA SCHOOL |
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| This famous Abbasid School for theology and medicine is situated on the eastern bank of Tigris, not far away from AL-Shuhada`a Bridge. It was built by the Caliph AL-Mustansir 1233 AD. The school shows four fine iwans, a mosque, large study halls, a library, a kitchen and a good number of student's bedrooms distributed in two stories around a large braved courtyard. The school is also well known of its fine ornamentation, which is mainly composed of geometrical and floral arabesque curved on the bricks covering its interior and exterior facades. |
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Al-MALWIYA |
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| This minaret was constructed at 234 A.H by the Abbasid caliph AL-Mua'tasam and was completed by his son AL-Mutawakil. It is 25m away from the northern wall of the site. On its exact middle dimension, there is a square base with 32 square meters. Above this base, there is a spiral construction with an outside ladder of 2.30 meters wide. It starts from the middle of the southern part of the base and it rounds five complete turns. The height of the minaret is 52m. |
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The Palace Of Al-Ukhadir |
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| This fortified palace stands a lone in the desert about 150 km southwest of Baghdad. It was built around the middle of the eighth century AD. It is one of the most impressive buildings in the whole world. It consists of a fortified rectangular enclosure measuring 175 X 169 m, with a gateway in the center of each side. It has four round corner towers and ten intermediate half-rounded towers. |
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Al-ASHIQ (OR AL-MA'SHOOQ) PALACE |
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| This is a large, but badly preserved, palace situated on the east bank of Tigris to the north of Al-Sulaibiya dome. The palace was built in 889 AD by the Caliph Al-Mu'tamid who was the last caliph ruled in Samarra. |
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ASSUR |
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| It is the first Assyrian capital known to us. Its ruins lie about 110 km south of Mosul and about 280 km to the north of Baghdad. The historians believe that the city was inhabited for the first time in the third Millennium BC, and went on as an inhabited city up to the second century AD. The important, still standing monument of Assur is the ziggurat which is a great construction built of backed bricks on the top of a rectangular platform composed of several layers assigned to Assur; the main god of Assyria. |
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