Baghdad
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| Baghdad | |
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| — Ceety — | |
| بغداد Baġdād | |
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  Baghdad
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| Coordinates: 33°20′00″N 44°26′00″E / 33.3333333°N 44.4333333°E | |
| Kintra |  Iraq |
| Province | Baghdad |
| Established | 762 AD. |
| Foonder | Abu Jafar al-Mansour |
| Govrenment | |
| - Mayor | Saber Nabet Al-Essawi |
| Aurie | |
| - Tot | 2,260.2 km2 (872.7 sq mi) |
| Hicht | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Indwallers | |
| - Estimate (2011) | 7,216,040 |
| - Rank | 1st |
| [1][2] | |
| Time zone | Arabie Staundart Time (UTC+3) |
| - Simmer (DST) | No DST (UTC) |
Baghdad (Persie[3][4][5][6]; Arabic: بغداد, Baġdād, Template:IPA-ar) is the caipital o Iraq an o Baghdad Province, wi which it is coterminous. Haein a population estimatit atween 7 an 7.5 million, it is the lairgest ceety in Iraq[1][2] an the seicont lairgest ceety in the Arab Warld (efter Cairo, Egyp).
Locatit on the River Tigris, the ceety dates back tae the 8t century. Baghdad haes a past as a center o the Arab an Muslim warld especially durin the Abbasid Caliphate.
[edit] Sister ceeties
Amman, Jordan
Beirut, Lebanon[7]
Dubai, Unitit Arab Emirates
Sana'a, Yemen[8]
Nishapur, Iran[9]
Pyongyang, North Korea
Basra, Iraq
[edit] References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedlargestcities - ↑ A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. MacKenzie. Routledge Publications 2000
- ↑ ما معنى اسم مدينة بغداد ومن سماه ؟. Seenjeem.maktoob.com. Retrieved on 27 Apryle 2010. .
- ↑ ما معنى (بغداد)؟ - تمت الإجابة عنه - Google إجابات. Egabat.google.com. Retrieved on 27 Apryle 2010. .
- ↑ Guy Le Strange, "Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian", pg 10
- ↑ Twinning the Cities. City of Beirut. Retrieved on 13 Januar 2008. .
- ↑ Iraqi capital of Baghdad twinned with North Yemen counterpart of Sanaa [Yemen news items 1989:Twinning]
- ↑ http://www.neishabourcity.com/shahrdari/index.php
