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century, Kufa lost its importance and began to fall into decay. At the beginning of the 19th century, travellers reported extensive and important ruins as marking the See also:

ancient site. Since that See also:

time the ruins have served as quarries for bricks for the See also:

BUILDING

building of Nejef, and at the See also:

PRESENT

present time little remains but holes in the ground, representing excavations for bricks, with broken fragments of See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

glass strewn over a considerable See also:

AREA

area. A See also:

MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque still stands on the spot where 'Ali is reputed to have worshipped.

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