Born near modern-day Tehran in the year 763, he ruled from a city currently the seat of Jalal Talabani's government. His court was controlled by the Barmakids, and he had dipl
Born near modern-day Tehran in the year 763, he ruled from a city currently the seat of Jalal Talabani's government. His court was controlled by the Barmakids, and he had diplomatic relations with both the Tang and the Carolingian empires.  He was on particularly close relations with the Holy Roman Emperor of the latter, sending mechanical clocks and an  albino elephant named Abbu al-Abbas to Charlemagne as presents. The elephant was named after the founder of his  dynasty, the Abbasids, of which he was the fifth caliph. FTP, name this ruler of Baghdad whose reign is immortalized in  the Thousand and One Nights.
Born near modern-day Tehran in the year 763, he ruled from a city currently the seat of Jalal Talabani's government.