Baghdad
/ˈbægdæd/- the capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris; pop., 6,194, 800 (est. 2009). A thriving city under the Abbasid caliphs in the 8th and 9th centuries, it was taken by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman in 1534 and remained under Ottoman rule until the First World War. In 1920 it became the capital of the newly created state of Iraq.巴格达（伊拉克首都, 位于底格里斯河畔, 2009年估计人口6,194, 800, 公元8-9世纪阿拔斯王朝哈里发统治时很繁盛, 1534年被奥斯曼帝国苏丹苏莱曼占领, 直至第一次世界大战, 1920年成为新建立的伊拉克国首都）。