Baghdad, as a name, had been mentioned as (Baghdadu) on the Assyrian cuneiform records of the ninth century BC. It also appeared in many other historical records prior to the Christian era.

The historical records of the later period mentioned that AL-Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph, (754-775 AD) had established his capital (The Round City) in almost the same location in 762 AD.

Soon after, Baghdad had flourished and expanded to cover a wide area on both banks of Tigris. It lasted as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty up to the Mongol invasion in 1258 AD. Nevertheless, the city of Baghdad went on as the capital of Iraq up to the present time.
 
Raoof Simko

احكي لكم عن منزل يديره اب تملاه الخيلاء ...
له خمسة وعشرون من البنات والابناء ...
كريم جدا لكن فقط مع الغرباء...
يعطي ابناءه فقط ما يبقيهم احياء...
لو اعترض احدهم كان مصيره الخفاء...
عاشوا سنين وسنين في هذا الجفاء...
وفجأة انهار كل ذلك البناء...
رقص بفرح كل من البنات والابناء...
مع ان شبح ذلك الاب  ما زال يلاحقهم في كل الانحاء...
حتى افاقوا من فرحتهم ومنزلهم يحتله الاعداء...
ثاروا ولم يرضوا بهذا الاعتداء...
نادى عليهم منزلهم حرروني من الاحتلال يا ابناء...
هتفوا جميعا سنحررك وبارواحنا سنلبي النداء...
ليلى عبد الرحمن

ماذا اكتب ماذا اقول... فالكلام سيطول ويطول... وكلماتي لا تعبر عن الواقع المهول... وقلمي يقف في صمت وذهول... لا يقوى على مواجهة هذا العالم المجهول...
اين ذهبت يا ليالي بغداد الملاح... أأنت على عودة ام رواح... عديني ان ترجعي ومعك السعادة والافراح...
ساواجه مصيري المكتوب... واستعيد حقي المسلوب... واعيش دوما حرا على ترابك المحبوب...

ليلى عبد الرحمن

Iraq is a land which has been accustomed to receiving everyone gladly, because of its position as a link between east and west since the oldest times.
Iraq is a land which is one of the richest in te world in history. Here humanity knew settled agriculture for the first time and discoverd writing, the most important prop to civilization.
The earliest known code of laws were written ere to organize human life on a legal basis. The first and oldest university was also founded in this land. Here the wheel was invinted for the first time, and the first engineering structure and designs were discoverd, and for the first time an agriculture calendar was devised by which the farmer could tell the seasons and types of crops suitable for each of them.
Iraq is the land of black gold, which suddenly gushed out of its soil, this land small in area but abundant in riches. Iraq is a land of the Tigris and the Euphrates... land of palm trees and delicious, plentiful fruit... the land of the warm and evershining sun.
The "land between the rivers", as the Greek name MESOPOTAMIA means, was a fabulously fertile country. Because it was surrounded by deserts and mountainous regions, it was always a timpting prize for people inhabiting the less rich neighbouring areas. its history was one of successive conquests and defeates, now told by the ruins of great and famous cities Babylon of the Hanging Gardens, Nineveh and others.

I am 13 years old. I am in the 2nd class in AL-MUTAMAYSAT secondary school whech means the secondary school for excellent student.
I spend most of my time working on computer and reading stories, i have a library of about 75 books some of them are stories and the others are poetical books. Also i help my mother in housework.
My father is a lucturer in the colleg of engineering. At the same time he is postgradute student. He is working hardly to get the PhD in computer engineering.
My mother is assestant prof. in the colleg of engineering.
I have only one brother. He is in the primary school in the 4th class. I love my family so much.

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palms from iraq