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Did you know that Balkh is among the 20 oldest cities in the world according to the Telegraph… check out the list at the link below.
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Why did arabs call it "Mother of Cities" ??? -
Because probably it was a great center of civilization for eons when the Arab culture was not particularly developed in the pre-Islamic times.
Balkh was associated with the prophet Zarathustra [Zoroaster] who was believed to have been from there.
More recently, it was the birthplace of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi Balkhi, as we all know.
I badly wanted to visit there for so many years. Then finally I got across the border in Uzbekistan all the way to the fake-named "Friendship Bridge", but was not allowed to cross by some UN people who thought it was unsafe for me at that time, in the early 1990s
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Ow oke....I think Baghdad deserves that name better, Isn't it much older and also the city of the first civilization....Originally posted by Catya Sher View PostComment
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No. Baghdad isn't that old. It is Babylon of which you may be thinking, a short hour and a half or 2 hours to the south. I have been there to all these places because I like ancient civilizations and places of great historical interest.
Actually, Ur is probably one of the oldest, older than Babylon.
Same with Nippur. These are in Southern Iraq. In the Bible, Abraham came from Ur, called there, "Ur of the Chaldees".
It was a Sumerian city, by the way, which shows to those who pretend that Abraham was "the first Jew" that he was NOT. He was Sumerian,
from a highly advanced civilization, ancient Sumeria. The Jews were later, and wandering tribes in the desert. All you have to do is look at the Ziggurat of Ur and you can see the difference. There was nothing like that EVER created in Palestine. {There is another Ziggurat at Choga Zanbil, across the border in southwestern Iran, which I saw too.}
I didn't see the list, but Ur should be on there for sure.
Baghdad was mainly built up by the Abbasid dynasty, much much later.
Like around the early 800s, I would say offhand.
This amazing capital of the Abbasids was destroyed by invading Mongols in 1258. I always remember
that year because it was such a sad devastation of a highly develped city and empire.Comment
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