“No city in the world will ever rival it for prosperity...“ Baghdad, originally a Christian village in Iraq, was chosen by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur as the site for the new capital of his empire, a…
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- Part 1
- Published date
- 2023-10-08
- Year span
- 750 – 762
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