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In 762 AD, the Abbasid Caliphate under Al Mansur built a new capital at Baghdad.

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The Abbassids shifted the capital from Damascus, which had been an Umayyad stronghold, to their newly-built city in central Mesopotamia: BAGHDAD.

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