Karbala

Karbala (Ar)
Al Husayn
Administration
Country	Iraq
Province	Karbala
Geography
Contact	32 36 '58 "North 44 02 '03 "East / 32.616099, 44.03419
Altitude	36 m
Demography
Population	498 347 inhabitants.
Location
Karbala
Sources
Index Mundi
World Gazetteer

Karbala ( Arabic : ; also translated into "Karbala" and "Karbala") is a city of Iraq , located 100 km southwest of Baghdad. Its population in 2003 was 572 300 inhabitants. It is the capital of the province of Karbala.

The Shiites regard it as their fourth shrine after Mecca , Medina and Najaf. In 680 , during the Battle of Karbala , the Imam Hussein bin Ali was beheaded by the soldiers of Yazid ^I. because he had refused to recognize him as legitimate Caliph. Yazid's men have been shown and fluttering his head with joy.

The celebrations of Ashura and the Arbain commemorating the death and decapitation of Hussein , held there each year. Ashura is a day of fasting that commemorates the day when God saved Moses and the children of Israel from the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Shia place their forehead on the very spot where Hussein was decapitated.

History

A great battle took place in 680.

The Treaty of Amasya in 1555, transferred Karbala and Najaf , domination Safavid than the Ottomans.

• April 21, 1802 , Saud bin Abdulaziz at the head of Wahhabis invaded Iraq, seized and pillaged Karbala . Iconoclasts, they destroy shrines, including that of Imam Hussein and his tomb ^{, ,} . Between 2000 and 3000 people were killed ^, .

References

• Portal Iraq
• Islam Portal

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