District Al-Mada'in Local time Wednesday 7:21 PM | Elevation 6 m | |
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Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad buried in the city.
Map of Salman Pak, Madain, Iraq
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. The site included training grounds used by Iraqi intelligence to direct Special Operations Forces.
References
Salman Pak Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA