Bagdad

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  • begad: (Anglo-Irish) exclamation, euphemism for "by God"
  • Baghdad: Capital and largest city of Iraq, on Tigris River, and an ancient caliphate of Turkey-in-Asia in the Tigris-Euphrates region.
    • This begins a series of foliations of Middle Eastern civilizations past and present, a remark on the Arabic numeral system used in mathematics as well as the Middle Eastern origins of algebra