The Abbasid Caliphate once ruled a Golden Age of knowledge and power, but it all came crashing down when Baghdad burned Discover the fall of this great dynasty What drivers said after Atlanta Cup ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, contains the remains of an iconic Islamic city that during most of the 9th century served as the capital of the Abbasid Empire, and has been on ...

Apart from this, the Umayyad rulers had built many buildings like Abd al-Malik Palace and Umayyad Mosque. The Abbasid caliphs moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad in modern day Iraq.