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  • Baghdad

  • Baghdad

    Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. The Abbasid Caliphate Al-Mansur commissioned the construction of the city in 762 AD. and he believed that Baghdad was the perfect city to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids. Mansur loved the site so much he is quoted saying, "This is indeed the city that I am to found, where I am to live, and where my descendants will reign afterward".
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Historical Features of the Tigris River in Baghdad Rusafa, which extends from the school Al-Mustansiriya to the Abbasid Palace.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Baghdad
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    Baghdad
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    Baghdad
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    Baghdad

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2014

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Iraq

    Baghdad

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    8th Century AD

    Islamic

    Islamic

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    Islamic Monuments

     

     

     

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