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Al-Awja
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Place details
- Locality
- العوجة
- Region
- محافظة صلاح الدين
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Al-Awja
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Iraq
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Salah ad Din
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tikrit
- Settlement.established_title
- Settled
- Settlement.established_date
- 1877
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2003
- Settlement.population_total
- 29000
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- After 2003
- References
Al-Awja () is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Muslim Arabs.
The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Awja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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