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Artist: The Offspring
Album: Baghdad
Release Date: 30 Nov 1990

Baghdad ({{lang-ar|Ø¨ØºØ¯Ø§Ø¯ ''{{ArabDIN|BaÄ¡dÄd'') is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 7,000,000, it is the largest city in Iraq.<ref name=population/><ref name=largestcities/>

Baghdad is the third-largest city in the Middle East (after Cairo and Tehran).

Located on the Tigris|Tigris River, the city dates back to at least the 8th century, and probably to pre-Islamic times. Once the center of Divisions of the world in Islam#Dar al-salam|Dar al-salam, the Muslim world, Baghdad is now important because of the ongoing Iraq War.

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Although there is no dispute over its Iranian languages|Iranian origin,<ref>Page 563 of the First Encyclopaedia of Islam edited by M. Th. (Martijn Theodor) Houtsma</ref> there have been several rival proposals as to its specific etymology. The most reliable and most widely accepted among these is that the name is a Middle Persian compound of ''Bhaga|Bag'' "god" + ''dÄd'' "given", translating to "god-given" or "God's gift", whence Modern Persian ''{{lang|fas|BaÉ£dÄd''. Another leading proposal is that the name comes from Middle Persian ''BÄgh-dÄd'' "The Given Garden". The name is pre-Islamic and the origins are unclear, but it is related to previous settlements, which did n

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