Situated on the Tigris River, this city was once one of the major learning centers in the world. Name that Middle Eastern capital.

Not long after being founded, Baghdad became a center of commerce and learning. In fact, its House of Wisdom was a hub for translating literature and other written works. Heard of the One Thousand and One Nights? Many of those tales are set in Baghdad.

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