Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The city of Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد Baġdād) was established by the Abbasid dynasty as its capital in the 8th century, marking a new era in Islamic history after their defeat of the Umayyad Caliphate. It replaced Seleucia-Ctesiphon, a Sasanian capital 35 km southeast of Baghdad, which was virtually abandoned by the end of the 8th century.
Fallen Iraqi soldiers. The Victory Arch (Arabic: قوس النصر, romanized: Qaws an-Naṣr), [1][2] officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of outstretched hands holding crossed swords.
1258 (Mongol conquest) The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid -era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age ...
The Round City of Baghdad in the time of Caliph al-Mansur, with the Palace of the Golden Gate in the centre (No. 2) The Palace of the Golden Gate (Arabic: قصر باب الذهب, romanized: Qasr Bāb al-Dhahab) or Palace of the Green Dome (Arabic: قصر القبة الخضراء, romanized: Qasr al-Qubbat al-Khaḍrāʾ) was the official caliphal residence in Baghdad during the early ...
Description. The monument was opened in 1961, after the sculptor's death. It consists of 14 bronze castings, representing 25 figures, on a travertine slab, raised 6 metres off the ground. [6] The monument is 10 metres in height and 50 metres long. The figures, which are in bas-relief, are intended to evoke Babylonian, Assyrian and Arab artworks.
Coordinates: 33°20′42″N 44°22′43″E. Garden of Ridván, Baghdad. The Garden of Ridván (literally garden of paradise) or Najibiyyih Garden[1] was a wooded garden in what is now Baghdad 's Rusafa District, on the banks of the Tigris river. It is notable as the location where Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, stayed for ...
Gaya al-Rahal. Website. Mohammed Ghani official website. Mohammad Ghani Hikmat (April 20, 1929 – September 12, 2011) ( Arabic: محمد غني حكمت) was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad 's highest-profile sculptures and monuments and was known as the " sheik of sculptors". [1]
Al-Shaheed Monument (Arabic: نصب الشهيد, romanized: Nasb al-Shaheed), also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument designed by Iraqi sculptor Ismail Fatah al-Turk and situated in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. It was originally dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers killed in the Iran–Iraq War and has since grown to become generally ...