Bagdad

Examples

• In the time of Harun Al-Rashid (800 A.D) and his son, the Caliphate of Bagdad was the center of Arab science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Later on Mosul and Bagdad revived feebly as second-rate towns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The German idea was crystallized in the phrase Berlin to Bagdad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bagdad was still the religious capital of Islam, and the Mongols had become bitterly hostile to the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An army, very ill provided for the campaign, was landed at Basra in the November of 1914, and pushed up towards Bagdad in the following year. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He turned his arms against the caliphate and captured Bagdad, in which city he perpetrated a massacre of the entire population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mansur, the successor of Abul Abbas, built himself a new capital at Bagdad near the ruins of Ctesiphon, the former Sassanid capital. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This Saladin reunited the efforts of Egypt and Bagdad, and preached a Jehad, a Holy War, a counter-crusade, of all the Moslems against the Christians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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