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Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq Tigris River in Baghdad Shrine of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī Baghdad: U.S. Marines Baghdad: Al Rasheed Street Ruṣāfah and Al-Karkh districts of Baghdad Iraq War Map showing the birthplaces of prominent mathematicians from the Islamic world, marked with city names and mathematician names across the Middle East and Central Asia. Cities such as Baghdad, Basra, Harran, and others are labeled, each associated with a historical mathematician. Modern country boundaries and a locator inset of the region are included. Central Baghdad, seen from the Ruṣāfah district looking south toward Al-Karkh, with the Ḥaydar Khānah mosque in the foreground.
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Central Baghdad, seen from the Ruṣāfah district looking south toward Al-Karkh, with the Ḥaydar Khānah mosque in the foreground.
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Baghdad
Baghdad Baghdad, the capital and largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris River.

Baghdad

national capital, Iraq
Also known as: Bagdad, Baghdād, Madīnat al-Salām, the Round City(Show More)
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Phebe A. Marr
Senior Fellow, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. Former Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Author of The Modern History of Iraq.
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Baghdad, city, capital of Iraq and capital of Baghdad governorate, central Iraq. Its location, on the Tigris River about 330 miles (530 km) from the headwaters of the Persian Gulf, is in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia. Baghdad is Iraq’s largest city and one of the most populous urban agglomerations of the Middle East. The city was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid dynasty of caliphs, and for the next 500 years...

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