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What city did Abu Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Mansur build?

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In 762 al-Mansur began building a new capital at an old market town called Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris near the Euphrates canal.Officially called Madinat as-Salem, "City of Peace," it was finished in 766, ...

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