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Ar Raqqah

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | Copyright

Ar Raqqah or El Rashid , town (1995 est. pop. 120,000), capital of Ar Raqqah governorate, N Syria, on the Euphrates River. Carpets are manufactured, and the town has an agricultural experimental station. The ancient Nicephorium, Ar Raqqah was prominent during the early Abbasid caliphate. Caliph Harun ar-Rashid built a summer palace there and used the town as military headquarters against Byzantium. Ar Raqqah was destroyed by the Mongols in the early 13th cent.; some ruins remain. The modern name also appears as Raqqa and Rakka.

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