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Definition of Baghdad

1. Noun. Capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River. "Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world"

Definition of Baghdad

1. Proper noun. The capital of, and largest city in Iraq, situated in the center of the country on the Tigris river; an ancient city and historical center of the Muslim world. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Baghdad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The domes of Baghdad are mostly high, and disproportionately narrow. ... There are about thirty khans or caravanserais in Baghdad, all of inferior ..."

2. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"He was proclaimed khalif at Baghdad on the ... He also calculated a set of astronomical tables and founded an academy at Baghdad. In Khurasan ho made Tus, ..."

3. Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia: Including a Residence by Austen Henry Layard (1887)
"Hearing, therefore, that an Arab employed by the Indian Government to carry the post between that town and Baghdad was about to leave, ..."

4. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1848)
"We left Baghdad on the above day, and, passing through the bridge of boats, ... The gardens to the N. of Baghdad terminate abruptly about two miles above ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"By WILLIAM KENNETT LOFTUS, Esq., FGS Communicated by the Earl of CLARENDON. MB. LOFTUS travelled in 1849-50, in company with Mr. Churchill, from Baghdad to ..."

6. Nippur: Or, Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates by John Punnett Peters (1897)
"Baghdad AND BABYLON. The British Resident—A Turkish Toothache — Antiquity ... OUR house in Baghdad was on the eastern side of the Tigris, where all the ..."

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