Salah ad Din Governorate
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Salah ad Din or Salâh-ad-Dîn (Arabic: صلاح الدين) is a governorate 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), an ethnic Kurd and hero of the 12th century. Salahuddin province is a variant version of the province's name.
On March 16, 2006, a combined American/Iraqi force, supported by 50 aircraft, launched an air assault into the province.
On March 20, The New York Times reported that: "Police investigators in Salahudin Province have accused American troops of executing 11 civilians, including several children, during a raid last Wednesday on a house in Ishaqi, near Balad, about 60 miles north of Baghdad."
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| Governorates of Iraq | Image:Flag of Iraq.svg |
|---|---|
| Al-Anbar | Arbīl | Bābil | Baghdād | Al-Basrah | Dahūk | Dhī Qār | Diyālā | Al-Karbalā' | Maysān | An-Najaf | Nīnawā | Al-Muthannā | Al-Qādisiyyah | At-Tā'mīm | Salāh ad-Dīn | As-Sulaymāniyyah | Wāsit | |
