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This giant castle, 31 miles South-West of Kerbela, dates from the early Islamitic period. Nowadays it is surrounded by all desert, but in the past a branch of a main river was nearby. A remarkable impressive sleeping beauty! |
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The vault of a hallway in the Castle |
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a vista... |
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view from the wall around the castle. |
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