Baghdad

Or Bag·dad

[bag-dad, buhg-dad]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris.

Baghdad

/ bæɡˈdæd /

noun

1. the capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris: capital of the Abbasid Caliphate (762–1258). Pop: 5 910 000 (2005 est)

Baghdad

1. Capital of Iraq, located in central Iraq on both banks of the Tigris River.

Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world.

It was bombed heavily during the Persian Gulf War.

Example Sentences

The argument made sense at the time: Multiple United Nations resolutions had demanded that Baghdad relinquish its WMDs, and Saddam did all he could to make the world think he had them.

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He reported from Afghanistan and Iraq, and he filed from inside the network’s Baghdad hotel compound during and after a terrorist bombing attack.

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Sudani’s coalition led in eight out of Iraq’s 18 provinces, including the capital Baghdad, initial results showed.

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Working in partnership with the University of Baghdad, Professor Jiménez rediscovered a Babylonian text that had remained hidden for more than a millennium.

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Few Iraqis welcomed both the 2003 U.S. invasion and the subsequent rise of Iranian influence in Baghdad as much as Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

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