The rulers of Mercia were generally the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kings from the mid-7th to the early 9th centuries, but are not accorded the title of bretwalda by the Chronicle, which is generally thought to be because of the anti-Mercian bias of the Chroniclers.

Chroniclers writing centuries later often mentioned or alluded to Huns or their purported descendants.

Chroniclers recorded that John had a " mad infatuation " with Isabella, and certainly John had conjugal relationships with Isabella between at least 1207 and 1215 ; they had five children.

* Anderson, Alan Orr, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers.

Chroniclers recorded that despite his wealth and power he was a modest and easy-going leader, happy to sit with his men and servants, casually laughing and eating with them.

Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain.

Chroniclers paid little attention to other aspects of medieval Scandinavian culture.

Chroniclers called the relationship excessive, immoderate, beyond measure and reason and criticised his desire for wicked and forbidden sex.

Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Giraldus Cambrensis from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

Chroniclers say he used gunpowder in the siege of Museros castle.

Chroniclers described the period as one in which " Christ and his saints were asleep " and Victorian historians called the conflict " the Anarchy " because of the chaos, although modern historians have questioned the accuracy of the term and some contemporary accounts.

Chroniclers writing a generation later said Odo desired to make himself Pope, but the contemporary evidence is ambiguous.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Matthew Paris from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

Lothian's distinction from Northumbria is indicated in the survival of its original Brythonic Celtic name, used even by English Chroniclers.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Walter Map from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

* Anderson, Alan Orr, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers A. D. 500 – 1286.

* Anderson, Alan Orr, Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers A. D. 500 – 1286.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Simeon of Durham from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: William of Malmesbury from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

Kudurrus were also used to record legal settlements and two exemplars include a law suit concerning land in Ḫudadu ( Baghdad?

" When he left for Baghdad, he was unusually excited ... very happy and interested in the work that was being undertaken.

After arriving in Baghdad with a heavy cold and feeling very ill for a fortnight, she traveled to Nimrud and drafted most of the book that became Mrs McGinty ’ s Dead.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

The 13th Division would spend the rest of the spring, summer, and early fall recovering from the fighting, and preparing for further operations to capture Baghdad.

The death of Arif prompted a power struggle in Baghdad which gave Barzani time to reorganize, but operations resumed once more by the summer once Arif's brother, Abdul Rahman Arif became president and vowed to continue the war.

The average summer high temperature is one of the hottest of any areas in Australia and approaches those of cities such as Riyadh and Baghdad.

In the summer of 1398 he marched from Tabriz with the goal of subduing the Jalayirids of Baghdad, but was forced to call off the expedition.

Subsequent to the collapse of the regime, the RCT conducted security and stability operations in Baghdad and Al Hillah until returning home throughout the summer of 2003.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

: They Came to Baghdad was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with Mallowan, and involves an archaeologist as the heroine's love interest.

Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah, the founder of the Abbasid caliphate, made it his capital, and such it remained until the founding of Baghdad in 762.

* 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

Another theory is that the ruins of Akkad are to be found beneath modern Baghdad.

Contact was also made with the Caliph in Baghdad.

* 2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1, 199 people.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

* 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The early translators included Mashallah, who helped to elect the time for the foundation of Baghdad, and Sahl ibn Bishr, ( a. k. a. Zael ), whose texts were directly influential upon later European astrologers such as Guido Bonatti in the 13th century, and William Lilly in the 17th century.

The Islamic Golden Age was inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to the newly founded city Baghdad.

During this period the Muslim world became an intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education as the Abbasids championed the cause of knowledge and established the " House of Wisdom " ( Arabic: بيت الحكمة ) in Baghdad.

Rival Muslim dynasties such as the Fatimids of Egypt and the Umayyads of al-Andalus were also major intellectual centres with cities such as Cairo and Córdoba rivaling Baghdad.

A Rolls-Royce Armoured Car # Variants | Fordson armoured car waits outside Baghdad while negotiations for an armistice take place between British officials and representatives of the Iraqi rebel government.