Talk:Round city of Baghdad

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Old Baghdad
the old baghdad was built in the eastern side of Tigris river. and the Round city was built in the western side of Tigris river. פארוק (talk) 23:03, 25 October 2011 (UTC) hshwjukhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwwwwwwwwegwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwfveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevgrahrehea5 yn4yteytrrshgtrhshseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyrtt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:D3EF:CB00:E95A:639A:B269:B154 (talk) 18:45, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

No archeological evidence for the Round City
So far, no material remains have been found, not for Baghdad, let alone the Round City. Françoise Micheau [1], p. 400- 401 states:

''“It is important to point out that no material remains from the time of the origin of Baghdad (...) The plan of early Baghdad cannot be discerned under the current topography. In addition, with the exception of few surveys, no archeological excavation has been undertaken. It follows that our knowledge of Abbasid Baghdad is based solely on written sources. For the first period we have no contemporary written sources, but there are systematic descriptions that belong to the following century.”''

The oldest monumental remains date from the twelfth-thirteenth century and are extremely scarce.

According to Hugh Kennedy [2], p. 377: “Of early 'Abbasid Baghdad nothing remains and the site is now so built over that archeology is unlikely to tell us more.”

[1] Françoise Micheau, Baghdad, an imperial foundation (762 - 836 CE), p. 397 - 415. In: Norman Yoffee (ed.), The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE-1200 CE, 2015.

[2] Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century, 2004. --Gerard1453 (talk) 12:45, 8 January 2019 (UTC)