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Baghdad
 
 
Capital of Iraq, located in central Iraq on both banks of the Tigris River.  1
‡ Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world.  2
‡ It was bombed heavily during the Persian Gulf War.  3
 
 
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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