History & heritageSinjar, Iraq

Singara

Fortified post at the northern extremity of Mesopotamia.

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Singara was a strongly fortified post at the northern extremity of Mesopotamia, which for a while, as it appears from coins minted there, was occupied by the Romans as an advanced colony against the Persians. It was the camp of legio I Parthica.

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36.32250, 41.86417 · Sinjar

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  1. Yarim TepeHistory & heritage
    45 km
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  • Yarim Tepe: Middle_East_topographic_map-blank.svg : Sémhur ( talk ) derivative work: PequoD 76 ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons