When was baghdad iraq founded

It is there that merchandise will arrive by way of the Tigris from Mosul, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, that too will be the destination of products transported by ship on the Euphrates from Raqqa, Syria, the borderlands of Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Maghred. This city will also be on the route of the peoples of Jebel, Ispahan, and of the provinces of Khursan.

I shall erect this capital and live it is all my life. It will be the residence of my descendants; it will certainly be the most prosperous city in the world. Economic Opportunities of New and Renewed Cities: The Caliph, founding a new capital, saw possibilities in locating at a crossroads.

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Notes on suggested sources contained in Widener Library, Harvard. Etymology Abo Jafar al-Mansur built his new capital on the location of the village was known as Baghdad since the days of Hammurabi and named it City of Peace , the paradise, but the people called it mostly the cityof Al-Mansour. Bjaddada was named on a board dating back to the eighteenth century BC, the time of King Hammurabi.

Baghdadi was named in a board dating back to BC. At another board dating back to the twelfth century BC the name Bjaddado appeared. Its commercial position became generally unrivaled and under the caliph Harun ar-Rashid , Baghdad rose to become one of the greatest cities of Islam. It was the home of many eminent scholars, artists, and poets, who enjoyed the city's wealth and culture. The period of its utmost glory is reflected in the Thousand and One Nights, in which many of the tales are set in Baghdad.

After the death of Harun the seat of the caliph was moved to Samarra; when the caliphate was returned later in the century, Baghdad had already been weakened by internal struggles. In the Mongols sacked the city and destroyed nearly all of its splendor. It revived but was captured again by Timur and by the Persians Baghdad was repeatedly contested by Persians and Turks until , when it became part of the Ottoman Empire. By that time the city's population had dwindled from a peak of c.

Baghdad was captured by the British in , and in it became the capital of the newly constituted kingdom of Iraq. In the early s the majority of Baghdad's large Jewish population, who were present there since the city's founding, left on organized flights to Israel.

The city was the scene of a coup in that overthrew the monarchy and established the Iraqi republic.