Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people. The Tigris River roughly bisects the vast city ...

Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

Baghdad, in modern Iraq, was the capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate beginning in the early Middle Ages. Construction on the city began in 762 CE, and by the end of the eighth century ...

There were around 1 million people living in Baghdad by AD900. This made it the largest city in the world at the time. Baghdad was also known as the Round City because it was built in a circle.