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The capital of the Abbasid Caliphs was

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The Abbasid Caliphate first centred its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Sasanian capital city of Ctesiphon. Baghdad became a centre of science, culture, philosophy and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam.
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