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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).
This map shows the layout of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad from 767 to 912 CE (it was subjected to changes with time), situated in modern day Iraq. The basic structure was circular.
For a time, Baghdad had been the largest city in the Middle East before being overtaken by Constantinople in the 16th century. The city saw a relative revival in the latter part of the 18th century under the Mamluk dynasty. The Nuttall Encyclopedia reports the 1907 population of Baghdad as 185,000.
It is Iraq’s largest city and one of the most populous urban agglomerations of the Middle East. The city was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid dynasty of caliphs, and for the next 500 years it was the most significant cultural center of Arab and Islamic civilization.
Medieval Baghdad: Metropolis and Court; Reading and Writing. Fred Astren ( SFSU ). In 762 the caliph al-Mansur imagined a well‐ordered imperial round city, but soon Baghdad thrived as a massively complex urban environ.
Baghdad was the city that medieval Arabic geographers put in the center of the world. The history of Baghdad is divided into three phases, first, the prestigious capital of the Abbasid Caliphs from the time of its foundation in 762 by al-Mansûr up to its conquest by Mongol armies in 1258; then, for centuries, a simple provincial metropolis ...
Baghdad was a planned city, just like modern-day Brasilia in Brasil or Canberra in Australia. The city had a remarkable round shape. The legend says the round shape was inspired by the father of geometry, the Greek mathematician Euclid. Baghdad's circumference was 6.5 kilometers (4 miles).
Baghdad - Abbasid, Caliphate, Iraq: 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 vicinity. (See Babylon; Seleucia on the Tigris; Ctesiphon.)
Baghdad, Commerce and the Round City. An 11 minute video on medieval Baghdad. Today, Baghdad is a battered city. But we need to remember that before the ruins, from the 8th to the 13th century, Baghdad had been the capital of a refined civilization.
In the map above you can see some of the main influential regions. • Tang Dynasty of China (yellow) • The Abbasid Caliphate (green) • The Carolingian Empire (red) • The Byzantine Empire (purple, but not labelled) • The Umayyad Emirate (blue) Meanwhile, in England, the Anglo-Saxons were beginning to consolidate into a single kingdom.