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  2. Round city of Baghdad - Wikipedia

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    The city was designed as a circle about 1 km (0.62 mi) in radius, leading it to be known as the "Round City". Given this figure, it may be estimated that the original area of the city, shortly after its construction, was around 3 km 2 (1.2 sq mi) (However, the historical sources do not agree on the size of the city. [6])

  3. Khuld Palace - Wikipedia

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    The main part of the original city was the Round City, with the first caliphal palace, the Palace of the Golden Gate, at its centre. [1] In 773, [ 2 ] al-Mansur began construction of another palace on an elongated, mile-long stretch of land between the walls of the Round City and the western bank of the Tigris River .

  4. History of Baghdad - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of circular cities - Wikipedia

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    The round city of Isfahan is not uncovered yet. [2] Basra: 630s Known mostly from literature. [1] Kufa: 630s Known mostly from literature. [1] Baghdad: 762 Known as "the round city of Baghdad". [2] [7] Darab: 8th century The uncovered imperfect circular perimeter is reportedly a defensive work built in the 8th century, and the city itself was ...

  6. Palace of the Golden Gate - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Big City Adventure: San Francisco walkthrough - AOL

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    Match the groups mini-game. Try and create large groups of the same object in order to earn more bonus objects and to get a bigger score. This mini-game can become hard in the later rounds if you ...

  8. Sasanian architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Round city of Baghdad built in Abbasid period was based on Partho-Sasanian circular city design. [2] [3] Baghdad, for example, was based on Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Persia. In fact, it is now known that the two designers who were hired by al-Mansur to plan the city's design were Naubakht, a former Persian Zoroastrian, and ...

  9. Book Review: 'City of Ruins' completes a masterful Don ... - AOL

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    City of Ruins” marks the conclusion of his saga of Rhode Island mobster turned Las Vegas gambling tycoon Danny Ryan. If Winslow is to be believed, it is also the last novel he will ever write ...