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Taught ancient history and civilization at the Faculty of Education, University of Baghdad 1941–1960. Taught ancient Iraqi languages (Sumerian and Akkadian) at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts 1951–1963. Founding Board Member, University of Baghdad 1957–1958. Board Member of the University of Baghdad 1960–1963.
The name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. [2] The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows that the site of Baghdad was occupied by various peoples long before the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in 637 CE, and several ancient empires had capitals located in the surrounding area.
Babylonian kudurru of the late Kassite period found near Baghdad by the French botanist André Michaux (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 7th centuries BC.
The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766 CE as the official residence of the Abbasid court. Its official name in Abbasid times was City of Peace ( Arabic : مدينة السلام , romanized : Madīnat as-Salām ).
Round city of Baghdad. Baghdad was founded on 30 July 762 CE. It was designed by Caliph al-Mansur. [1] According to 11th-century scholar Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his History of Baghdad, [2] each course of the city wall consisted of 162,000 bricks for the first third of the wall's height. The wall was 80 ft high, crowned with battlements and ...
Kish is located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the ancient city of Babylon and 80 km (50 mi) south of modern Baghdad. The Kish archaeological site is an oval area roughly 8 by 3 km (5 by 2 mi), transected into east and west sections by the dry former bed of the Euphrates River , encompassing around 40 mounds scattered over an area of about 24 square ...
1535 – City becomes capital of the Baghdad Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. 1544 – City taken by forces of Suleiman I. [8] 1578 – Al-Muradiyya Mosque built. [4] 1601 – Coffeehouse built. [18] 1602 – City taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia. [8] [1] 1623 – 23 January: Capture of Baghdad by Safavids. [9] [1] 1625 - Siege of Baghdad ...
In the mid 8th century, the Round city of Baghdad was founded as the Abbasid capital, following the Abbasid victory over the Umayyad caliphate. While the Umayyads had typically reused pre-Islamic buildings in the cities they had conquered, by the Abbasid era many of these structures required replacement.