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Salah ad Din

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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