Salah ad Din or
Salâh-ad-Dîn is a province in
Iraq. The province has an area of
24,751 km². The estimated population for
2003 was 1,146,500 people. The provincial capital is
Tikrit; the province also contains the significantly larger city of
Samarra.
The province is named after Saladin (written Salah ah Din in modern Arabic Latin transcription), hero of the 12th century.
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