Hatra

Hatra is an historic ruined Assyrian city in Iraq, located at . It was an important fortified city of the Iranian Parthian Empire, and withstood repeated attacks by the Roman Empire. It is also one of the 10 Legendary Lost Cities of Tayyab. The site was used as the setting for the opening scene in the 1970s movie "The Exorcist".

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Hatra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Iran: Iran (Persian: ?????) is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia bordering Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, Turkey and Iraq to the west. Although locally known as Iran at least since the Sassanian period, until 1935 the country was ...

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