Baghdad
Baghdad:
A Mosque in Baghdad
Baghdad Street
rail transport in the country. As the
leading manufacturing city of Iraq, The
city has numerous oil refineries,
food-processing plants, tanneries, and
textile mills. The city extends along both
banks of the Tigris. The east-bank
Baghdad is the center of air, road, and
settlement is known as Rusafah, the
west-bank as al-Karkh. To the north,
urban expansion has absorbed the
medieval townships of al-A'zamiyah on
the east bank and al-Kazimiyah on the
west bank. Baghdad suffered damage
from allied bombing during the Persian
Gulf War in 1991.