Most of the Abbasid palaces, both in Baghdad and in the new capital Samarra, are now in ruins. But some elements survive. In front of me, I've got a few fragments of painted plaster - they come ...

The Archaeological City of Samarra is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city which ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Renovations began on St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Baghdad, the cathedral of ... since the 7th-12th centuries, during the Abbasid Caliphate. The community expanded ...

More than a millennium ago merchant-informants and officials at the service of the Abbasid caliph, from Baghdad or Basra, put to paper eyewitness accounts of North Europeans (Vikings), Indians ...