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Baghdad is the capital and the largest city of Iraq
and the 58th largest city of the World.

Baghdad is also the capital coterminous Baghdad Province.

Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century
and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Baghdad evolved into a significant center for the Islamic world.

The name Baghdad is pre-Islamic and its origins are under some dispute.

After the fall of the Umayyads, the first Muslim dynasty,
the victorious Abbasid rulers wanted their own capital to rule from.

762 July 30 Choosing a site north of the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon
the caliph Al-Mansur commissioned the construction of the city.