Baghdad - City of Peace

During the reign of the Abbasid caliph, Abu Jafar al-Mansur (A.D. 754-775), the dynasty established itself by building a new capital city and separaating from radical groups that had helped in the revolution. On the site of a small town near the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, al-Masur erected his new capital, the "City of Peace," Baghdad.