The Start Of Baghdad
After several villages got formed near the Tigris river with the area boring the name of Baghdad(meaning God-given),the Abbasid dynasty founded the capital in the 8th century. The official name given was ‘Madinat as-Salam’ meaning the City Of Peace.
The first caliph(ruler), Al-Mansur took four years and many engineers, architects, surveyors and creative artists to construct the city in the period of 764 to 768 CE. Astrology and astronomy were found to be interconnected in those times, with astrologers being able to predict human destiny by looking at the stars and planets.
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