Baghdad
Imperial capital
capital city of Iraq
Location: 33.3153, 44.3661 · Pleiades 893952
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the Abbasid capital from its founding in 762, and the city the catholicos of the East moved to before that century was out, to be near the court
Who is recorded here
- Enosh death · AD 801
- Isho Bar Nun death · AD 828
- Giwargis II death · AD 831
- Abraham II death · AD 850
- Theodosius death · AD 858
- Yohannan IV death · AD 905
- Emmanuel I death · AD 960
- Abdisho I death · AD 1000
- Yohannan V death · AD 1011
- Ishoyahb IV death · AD 1025
- Abraham III death
- Christopher of Antioch birth
- Ishoyahb IV birth
- Israel death
- Mari death
- Yohannan II death
- Yohannan III death
- Yohannan VI death
In art
About the place
Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million. It ranks among the most populous and largest cities in the Middle East and the Arab world and constitutes 22% of Iraq's population.
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