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This article documents the history of Baghdad . Baghdad (Arabic: Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. With a metropolitan area estimated at a population of 7,000,000, it i...
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Meaning of the Name "Baghdad" ... Baghdad Photo Gallery (Architecture) Mesopotamian Treasures (Ancient History) Maps of Iraq (Geography) ... history of baghdad...
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Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and the center of air, road, and rail transport in the country. As the leading manufacturing city of Iraq, The city has numerous oil refineries, food-processing plants, tanneries, and textile mills.
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Baghdad, in Iraq, has been an important city for Arabic culture for centuries. It was originally founded in 764 A.D. by second Abbasid caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur, and called Madinat as-Salam, or the City of Peace. ... Under Harun al-Rashid, starting in 786 A.D, Baghdad was the ideal city in the middle east.
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- Aman, tour guide of Bagdhad ... The Ottoman troops would need a series of campains lasting until 1626 to retake Baghdad. In 1639 the two opposing empires agreed to a peace which has lasted until now.
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Baghdad only came into importance in later years. The city's roots date back to ancient Babylon, a settlement as far back as 1800 B.C. However, its fame as a center for commerce and scholarship began in the 8th century A.D...
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The founding of Baghdad by Mansur came about in this way: the first Abbasid Caliph, Abul Abbas, had built a palace on the Euphrates at Anbar, but it didn't suit Mansur, who at once began to search about for somewhere more centrally placed from which to administer the new empire.
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In 635AD Arab Muslims conquered the occupying Persian force, and Baghdad was established as its capital in 762AD and was regarded the cultural capital of the Islamic world in the tenth century.
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Capital of Iraq. PHOTO. Article in the LookLex / Encyclopaedia ... History; 762: Caliph al-Mansur selects the site of the Persian village Baghdad as the location of the new administrative centre of the Caliphate. 836: The Caliph abandons Baghdad, and settles in Samarra.
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