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Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...

Van Berkel, a specialist in the Abbasids’ empire, recalls that the City of Peace, as it was called, had probably around half a million inhabitants. “But that’s still gigantic and beyond ...

“The Abbasid Empire and Baghdad in particular had a culture of writing and books," says Dr Maaike van Berkel, associate professor in Medieval History at Amsterdam University. Van Berkel who ...

Numerous and often ephemeral regional states replaced a unified empire. (See Map 4.) With the weakening of central governments and the rise of semiautonomous military, civic-religious, and ...

We treat the Arabian Nights as exotic fiction, but in fact they tell us a lot about real life in the court of the Abbasid caliphs, the supreme rulers of the vast Islamic Empire that in the eighth ...

While the Abbasid empire’s HQ was Baghdad, the discussion and development of maths quickly spread across the Arabic speaking world because paper was readily available in the region. So ...

The new civilizations arrive on October 25 and join the English, Chinese, Mongol, Delhi Sultanate, French, Abbasid Dynasty, Holy Roman Empire, and Rus civilizations already in the game ...

Samarra is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that for a century ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia. The 9th-century Great Mosque and its ...

Be sure to download your Google Maps for offline use before you step out. Once you have offline maps, you can use them to find your way, complete with turn-by-turn navigation, even when your GPS ...

Google Maps can accurately detect your location, but only if you calibrate the app correctly. While calibration may not be necessary to plan long trips across countries, getting accurate ...