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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.
The Green Zone (Arabic: المنطقة الخضراء, romanized: al-minṭaqah al-ḫaḍrā) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It is a 10-square-kilometer (3.9 sq mi) area in the Karkh district of central Baghdad , Iraq , and the seat of the Iraqi government .
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Baghdad Governorate (Arabic: محافظة بغداد Muḥāfaẓat Baġdād), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq. It includes the capital Baghdad as well as the surrounding metropolitan area. The governorate is one of two small provinces of all 19 in Iraq into which the country divides entirely, yet by a ...
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Al-Za'franiya district (Arabic: نَاحِيَة الزَّعْفَرَانِيَّة) is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. [1] It is located in the south-east of Baghdad at the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers. It is the main southern entrance to the city of Baghdad, located on the main road that connects the provinces south of Baghdad.
The definite revelation for the academic community of the existence of the Round City of Baghdad was recorded by Guy Le Strange, a British Orientalist prominent in the field of historical geography. His work "Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources," (1900) revisited, among other scholars, the work of ...