First published 1914 City of Tekrit Tigris River


Tikrit (Arabic: تكريت‎, Tikrīt also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a city in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at °N, °E). The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative center of the Salah ad Din GovernorateIn September 1917, British forces captured the city during a major advance against the Ottoman Empire during World War I


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