Tikrit

Tikrit every so often transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit, is a city in Iraq, placed 140 kilometres northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometres southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. As of 2012, it had a populace of one hundred sixty,000. In recent years the metropolis has been the web site of battle cumulating within the Second Battle of Tikrit from March thru April 2015, ensuing inside the displacement of 28,000 civilians.

The Iraqi authorities regained manipulate of the town from the Islamic State on March 31, 2015. But the metropolis changed into recaptured at the end of 2015 and now's in peace. As a fort alongside the Tigris, the town is first cited inside the Fall of Assyria Chronicle as being a shelter for the Babylonian king Nabopolassar at some point of his assault on the town of Assur in 615 BC. Tikrit is normally diagnosed as the Hellenistic agreement Birtha.