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As told in the book "The Thousand and One Nights" the Baghdad of the 8th century was one of the largest cities on the planet. It is said that more than 700,000 people lived there. It was a great political, economic, military, cultural and artistic center.
It was Baghdad with souks, mosques, large palaces, Arab princesses, Tigris merchants bringing and carrying silks and carpets. There were Persian, Aramaic and Greek inhabitants, who were learning and adopting the Arabic language as the main form of communication.
