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producing a total of just 0.8 million tonnes a year due to the shortage of electricity. Five new cement factories with a capacity of 9 million tonnes a year are under construction on the outskirts of
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facility's capacity was doubled to 20,000 bbl/d (3,200 m/d) in 2006 and was to have increased to 30,000 bbl/d (4,800 m/d) by 2007. The facility is linked by pipeline to the new Kifl oil field in
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Samawah is the historical seat of authority and authoritarianism in Samawah. It dates from the period of the Ottoman Turkish Occupation. It has been the focus of revolts and popular uprisings by the local population for the past century, most recently in 1991 when hundreds of
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Samawah has its own media industry, with the recently reopened
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Samawah is home to a rail yard for overhauling and maintaining the rolling stock and locomotives along the
Baghdad-Basra rail routes. Samawah railway station is conveniently located halfway between Baghdad and Basra. Overhaul facilities for the railways are an important source of employment
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Samawah is served by a highway for road traffic from
Baghdad and Basra. The railway station has passenger services from both Baghdad and Basra and is the cheapest form of transport. The railway station is located approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) to the west of central Samawah.
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and is surrounded by hundreds of palm groves that give it a tropical feel, especially in the southern and northern suburbs. These groves provide cool respite from the scorching heat of
Mesopotamia and were the inspiration for the famous Iraqi folk song "The Palm of Samawah".
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around the 3rd century AD. It is built on both sides of the
Euphrates river; there are four bridges in the centre of town for crossing between the two sides. The west bank of the city contains the commercial heart of the city, and includes the old town and the
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Due to the preponderance of both communists as well as Shia thinkers like (Sheikh Mahdi Al-Samawi) was among the personalities and artists of
Samawah, most of them ended up either being killed by the Baathists regime or lived in exile for much of their lives.
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The unemployment rate is high. The city, in spite of the lack of high-value natural resources such as oil and gas and a lack of central government investment, has managed to maintain lively small-scale industrial, agricultural and alternative sectors.
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with chimney stacks as high as 30 m (98 ft) are constructed by villagers in the surrounding region to make baked bricks with the same methods used during the Sumerian and
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A number of prominent artists originate from Samawah, including poets, painters and sculptors. An indepth overview of both historical and current artists can be found in
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