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The name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. [3] The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows that the site of Baghdad was occupied by various peoples long before the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in 637 CE, and several ancient empires had capitals located in the surrounding area.
Round city of Baghdad. Baghdad was founded on 30 July 762 CE. It was designed by Caliph al-Mansur. [1] According to 11th-century scholar Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his History of Baghdad, [2] each course of the city wall consisted of 162,000 bricks for the first third of the wall's height.
The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766 CE as the official residence of the Abbasid court. Its official name in Abbasid times was City of Peace (Arabic: مدينة السلام, romanized: Madīnat as-Salām).
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The Abbasid Caliphate first centered its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Babylonian capital city of Babylon and Sassanid city of Ctesiphon. Baghdad became the center of science, culture, and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam.
1848 – Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad established. 1849 – Remnants discovered of quay of Nebuchadrezzar, from Babylonian city of Baghdadu. [1] 1861 – Istanbul-Baghdad telegraph line installed. [23] 1865 Basrah-Baghdad telegraph line installed. [23] Alliance Israélite boys' school established. [1] 1869 – Midhat Pasha in power. [9 ...
Governor Al-Shakir Effendi's family in Baghdad, 1901. In the history of Baghdad, the period from 1831 to 1917 began with the fall of the Mamluk state of Iraq in 1831 after the Ottoman Empire occupied the city. [1] It ended with the Fall of Baghdad on 11 March 1917 after the British Empire occupied the city during the First World War.
The Baghdad province (Persian: ولایت بغداد, romanized: Velāyat-e Baghdād) was a province of the Safavid Empire, centred on the territory of the present-day Iraq. [1] Baghdad was the provincial capital and the seat of the Safavid governors.