Baghdad under the Abbasids // Yaqut 1000 AD // Arabic Primary Source @VoicesofthePast
Baghdad under the Abbasids // Yaqut 1000 AD // Arabic Primary Source  @VoicesofthePast
Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here we have an account to echo History Time's upcoming video - a description of the wonders of Baghdad at the turn of the first millennium, under its Abbasid rulers. The first city to hit one million inhabitants, at the time Baghdad was the world's largest - the jewel in the crown of the Islamic Golden Age.

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