CALIPHATE OF AL MAHDI & AL MANSUR.

Caliphate of Al Mahdi & Al Mansur.

The Caliphate of Al Mansur, the builder of Baghdad

The town was based in 762 CE by Caliph al-Mansur. With the end of Ummyad direct centralised in Damascus, al-Mansur was searching a new capital for what would become the Abbasid dynasty. He traveled along the Tigris River where he discovered a little village well located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. His designs for an amplified town encompassed fortifying it inside circular walls. Four barriers functioned like spokes in the wheel of the city's walls. To the southeast lay ...