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Baghdad - Iraq
Baghdad is the capital of the Iraq and with 5,672,000 inhabitants one of the largest towns in the Middle East.
Story of Baghdad
Baghdad was founded in the year 762 of the abbasidischen caliph Al-Mansur as a new capital of the Islamic empire. Within four years the caliph palace and the main mosque came into being at the western Tigrisufer.
Because of the situation chosen favorably at the road junction of numerous trade routes and the fertile cultivable areas in their proximity to the Tigris the newly founded town flourished fast. When Al-Mansurs Sohn Al-Mahdi ascended the throne, Baghdad already had an area of 15 square kilometers. As an Arab historian reports Baghdad had Al-Ma mun in the time of the caliph '65,000 public baths.
The caliph transferred Al-Mu in between and first the Buyiden dynasty had to keep his army away from the population, the capital to Samarra, but Kalifat lost power on also as this, tasim, these on February 10th, 1258 and the last caliph Al-Mu the Seldschuken governed the Islamic empire later, it remained one of the most important towns of the Islamic world, 1258 was conquered of the Mongols under Hulagu to it ' tasim killed. Since the 16th century the rulers of Persia and Turkey argued repeatedly over the town.
Baghdad counted approximately 15,000 inhabitants only in 1652. Baghdad remained under Ottoman rule until the kingdom was set up to Iraq under British control in 1921; The formal followed and 1946 the complete independence in 1932. The population of the town increased from approximately 145,000 to 580.000.
Gulf war numerous historically valuable cultural possessions of the town were 2003 destroyed or damaged by clashes or lootings, particularly was destroyed with thousands of valuable old manuscripts completely, the national museum looted by a fire the national library in the retinue of the capture of Baghdad by the U.S. forces in the third party. The arriving U.S. troops didn't step in.
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