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Where did the Mansur Palace get it's name? Bagdad was founded in 764 by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur. Bagdad was already well establised when the famous caliph Harun-al-Rashid ruled. See: Yakut:
Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE
The Bagdad Battery - a curiose
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