Image: Round City in the Time of Mansur (Le Strange)

Description: The Round City of Baghdad in the time of Caliph al-Mansur. References to map: 1. Mosque of Mansur 2. Palace of the Golden Gate with the two Galleries facing the Syrian Gate 3. Various public offices, viz. Treasury, Armoury, Chancery, Land Tax Office, Public Bakery, Pay Office, Chamberlain's Office, and Palaces of the younger sons of the Caliph 4. The Prison called Al-Matbak 5. The Basrah Gate 6. The Khurasan Gate 7. The Syrian Gate 8. The Kufah Gate 9. Mosque of Musayyib 10. House of the Gate-keepers, Diwan of the Sadakah (Poor Tax Office). The Stables and Dromedary House 11. The Old Bridge 12. The New Bridge 13. Palace and Mosque of Waddah 14. The Harrani Archway 15. The Mosque of the Sharkiyah Quarter 16. The Tomb of Ma'ruf Karkhi 17. Shrine of Ali, called Mashhad-al-Mintakah 18. Dar-al-Jawz (the Nut-house) 19. Palace of Humayd ibn Abd-al-Hamid and the Barley Gate (Bab-ash-Sha'ir) 20. Palace of Adud-ad-Din, the Wazir 21. The Old Convent at the Sarat Point 22. The Karar Palace of Zubaydah 23. The Palace of the Khuld 24. The Royal Stables 25. Office of the Bridge Works and Hall of the Chief of Police 26. Palaces of the Princes Sulayman and Salih 27. Prison of the Syrian Gate 28. Palace of Sa'id-al-Khatib and the Orphan School 29. Dukkan-al-Abna (the Persian Shops) 30. Quadrangle of the Persians 31. Quadrangle of Shabib
Title: Round City in the Time of Mansur (Le Strange)
Credit: Guy Le Strange (1900). Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Map II.
Author: Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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