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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.
1535 – City becomes capital of the Baghdad Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. 1544 – City taken by forces of Suleiman I. [8] 1578 – Al-Muradiyya Mosque built. [4] 1601 – Coffeehouse built. [18] 1602 – City taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia. [8] [1] 1623 – 23 January: Capture of Baghdad by Safavids. [9] [1] 1625 - Siege of Baghdad ...
The last Ottoman Census of 1917 stated that in Baghdad Sanjak out of the 202,000 population, 88,000 were Jews, 8,000 Kurd, 12,000 Christians, 800 Persian and rest Arab and other Muslims. [ 3 ] Population of Baghdad according to Ottoman Yearbook 1917 [ 3 ]
Baghdad [note 1] (Arabic: بغداد, Baghdād) is the capital and largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab World and forms 22% of the country's population.
Baghdad's capture was a significant achievement given its mastery of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their international and regional trade. [3] It represented, along with the fall of Basra in 1546, a significant step towards eventual Ottoman victory and the procurement of the lower Mesopotamia , the mouths of the Euphrates and Tigris ...
Ottoman Iraq (Arabic: العراق العثماني) refers to the period of the history of Iraq when the region was ruled by the Ottoman Empire (1534–1920; with an interlude from 1704 to 1831 From Independence under the Mamluk state of Iraq). Before reforms (1534–1704), Iraq was divided into four Eyalets (provinces): Baghdad Eyalet ...
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.
Pages in category "Ottoman history of Baghdad" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... History of Baghdad (1831–1917) B. Capture of Baghdad ...