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Kufa (Arabic: الْكُوفَة “al-Kūfah”), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about 170 kilometres (110 mi) south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000.
Kufa, o in italiano Cufa, è una città dell'Iraq. Assieme a Najaf, Samarra, Karbala e Al-Kazimiyya è una delle città irachene più sante per gli sciiti.
Kūfah, medieval city of Iraq that was a centre of Arab culture and learning from the 8th to the 10th century. It was founded in 638 ce as a garrison town by ʿUmar I, the second caliph. The city lay on the Hindiyyah branch of the Euphrates River, about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Al-Najaf.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
La Grande Moschea di Kufa, o Masjid al-Kūfa, è una moschea sita a Kūfa. È una delle prime moschee edificate al mondo, risalendo al VII secolo. Contiene i resti di Muslim ibn ʿAqīl - nipote di 'Ali ibn Abi Talib e cugino primo di al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī - del suo compagno Hānī ibn ʿUrwa e di al-Mukhtār al-Thaqafī.
The Great Mosque of Kufa (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْكُوفَة ٱلْمُعَظَّم/ٱلْأَعْظَم, romanized: Masjid al-Muʿaẓẓam/al-ʾAʿaẓam), or Masjid al-Kufa, is located in Kufa, Iraq and is one of the earliest surviving mosques in the world.
al-Kūfa Antica città dell’Iraq, sorta nei primi anni della conquista araba (intorno al 638 d.C.) sul corso inferiore dell’Eufrate, poco a S delle rovine di Babilonia.
14 feb 2005 · Kufa, Iraq. The house of the Caliphate. In 638 CE, Caliph Omar was visited at Medina by a deputation of Arabs from Al-Meda’in, a town on the Tigris recently conquered by the Muslims. [1] .
