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Baghdad was also known as the Round City because ... in the 9th century in the city of Samarra. It was part of the Great Mosque of Samarra which was the largest mosque in the world at the time.

Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de los Reyes ...

“Since its construction in the second half of the 12th century CE, al-Nuri Mosque was invested as Mosul’s Great Mosque ... as it expanded south toward Baghdad and the Sunni heartland between ...

August 1 - Coordinated car bomb attacks on five churches, four in Baghdad and one in Mosul, kill eleven and wound more than forty. August 26 - A mortar attack on a mosque in Kufa kills twenty ...