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City walls of Rafiqa (Raqqa) and the Baghdad Gate | Hegira 155–158 / AD 771–5; additions AH 180–92 / 796–809 and renovation some time during the 5th/11th centuryAbbasid | Raqqa, Syria | Al-Raqqa was not only the formal residence of the caliph Mu'tasim it was also the garden city of the other Abbasid caliphs with several orchards and parks, a horseracing arena and hunting grounds.Name | Dynasty | Details | Justification |
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City walls of Rafiqa (Raqqa) and the Baghdad Gate | Hegira 155–158 / AD 771–5; additions AH 180–92 / 796–809 and renovation some time during the 5th/11th centuryAbbasid | Raqqa, Syria | View of the exterior façade of al-Rafiqa (al-Raqqa) with its rounded towers. | City walls of Rafiqa (Raqqa) and the Baghdad Gate | Hegira 155–158 / AD 771–5; additions AH 180–92 / 796–809 and renovation some time during the 5th/11th centuryAbbasid | Raqqa, Syria | View of al-Rafiqa (al-Raqqa). | |
Capital | Hegira 3rd century / AD 9th centuryAbbasid | Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, Germany | The architecture of Al-Raqqa, like that in other Arab cities of the Abbasid period, was influenced by the local and regional styles of previous dynasties, especially those belonging to the Byzantines and Sassanids. |
Fragment from a carved wooden piece | Around hegira 4th–5th century / AD 10th–11th centuryAbbasid | National Museum of Damascus Damascus, Syria | An 11th-century fragment of carved wood that was discovered during excavations in the Abbasid palace complex at al-Raqqa. The partial inscription is 'commander of the faithful', written in foliated kufic script. |
Fragment of a pottery bowl | Hegira 136–58 / AD 754–75Abbasid | National Museum of Damascus Damascus, Syria | Made in southern Iraq and excavated at al-Raqqa, the inscription on this bowl reveals both the name of the maker and his patron: 'Made by Ibrahim the Christian, made at al-Hira for the prince Sulayman, son of the Prince of the Believers [the Caliph]'. Sulayman was one of the sons of the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur, who ruled between 136–58 / 754–75. |