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  2. Baghdad - Wikipedia

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    Baghdad [note 1] is the capital and largest city of Iraq. Situated on the Tigris, it is part of the Baghdad Governorate in the central region of Iraq. With a population variously estimated at 6 or over 7 million, Baghdad forms 22% of Iraq's total population. While its metropolitan area is home to over 10 million people.

  3. Baghdadi Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA . Baghdadi Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken in Baghdad , the capital of Iraq .

  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.

  5. Bagdad - Wikipedia

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    Baghdad (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at 22:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  6. Baghdad Governorate - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Victory Arch - Wikipedia

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    Baghdad is now dotted with monuments, including Al-Shaheed Monument and Monument to an Unknown Soldier, and many other statues, fountains and sculptures; all constructed between 1969 and 2003. [ 7 ] The site selected for the monument was where Arabs defeated the Sasanians, a Persian empire, and is generally seen to be the beginning of Islamic ...

  8. Iraq's PMF force says base was attacked, army investigates - AOL

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    BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A huge blast at a military base in Iraq early on Saturday killed a member of an Iraqi security force that includes Iran-backed groups. The force commander said it was an attack ...

  9. Names of the Islamic State - Wikipedia

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    You can help by adding to it. ( December 2015 ) Originating in Iraq, the group underwent various previous name changes , and since 2006 had been known as Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a name which had failed to gain any traction, as the group had failed to gain or hold any significant territory as ISI, and thus widespread confusion over what to ...