Salman Pak

This article is about the city in Iraq. For the companion of Muhammad, see Salman the Persian.

Salman Pak (Arabic: سَلْمَان بَاك, Persian: سلمان پاک, romanized: Salman the Pure) is a city located approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who is believed to be buried in Salman Al-Farsi Mosque in the city.^[1][2]

Salman Pak Arabic: سَلْمَان بَاك Persian: سلمان پاک
city
Salman Pak's famous Taq Kasra, the largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork in the world and the only visible remaining structure of the ancient city of Ctesiphon
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Coordinates: 33°06′N 44°35′E
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Baghdad
District	Al-Mada'in
Elevation	6 m (20 ft)
Population
• Total	117,500

The city overlaps with the ancient metropolis of al-Mada'in, which includes the ruins of ancient Ctesiphon and ancient Seleucia. It is also quite close to the Salman Pak facility, an Iraqi military installation which was a key center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons programs, though none of these were found.^{[3][unreliable source]} The site included training grounds used by Iraqi intelligence to direct Special Operations Forces.

See also

• Middle East
  • Mesopotamia