Raqqa

Raqqa is a city founded by Selucos Nicator II Callinicos in about 244 B.C. from whom it was named.

The Ommayd Calif Hicham has built in it two palaces. The city was constructed by the Abbaside ruler Al-Munser on a slightly modified city plan of Bagdad with a shape of a horseshoe in 754-775 and made it the capital of the rich province of Jezira in North East of Syria

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