Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك ) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad who is buried there.
It is quite close to the Salman Pak facility, an Iraqi military installation which was a key center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons programs[1]. It is also alleged to have been the site of a training facility used by Iraqi intelligence to train militia groups.[2]
Salman Pak is also site of the Arch of Ctesiphon, one of the largest and oldest freestanding arches in the world.
Coordinates: 33°06′N 44°35′E / 33.1°N 44.583°E
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