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Kufa (en árabe: الكوفة Al-Kūfa) es una ciudad de Irak situada a unos 170 km al sur de Bagdad y a 10 km al noroeste de Náyaf. Tenía 110.000 habitantes en 2003. Es, junto a Karbala y Náyaf una de las tres grandes ciudades chiíes de Irak.
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.
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.
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.
Kufa (en árabe: الكوفة Al-Kūfa) es una ciudad de Irak situada a unos 170 km al sur de Bagdad y a 10 km al noroeste de Náyaf. Tenía 110.000 habitantes en 2003. Es, junto a Karbala y Náyaf una de las tres grandes ciudades chiíes de Irak. Datos rápidos Kufa الكوفة, Coordenadas ...
20 de jun. de 2017 · KUFA – Encyclopaedia Iranica. KUFA, a city about 105 kms south of Baghdad. Kufa was founded as a garrison city ( meṣr) in 17/638 by Saʿd b. Abi Waqqāṣ, after his victory at the battle of Qādesiya. It replaced Ḥira as the local administrative center for several former Sasanian provinces (Morony, p. 154).
14 de feb. de 2005 · Being the home of the encyclopaedic scholar Al-kindi and the great chemist Jabir Ibn Hayan, Kufa had a key role in the history of science. 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]
