A 1941 coup in this city was the subject of Adolf Hitler's Directive No. 30, which expressed support for that coup's perpetrators, a group of four nationalist generals known as the Golden Square and l
A 1941 coup in this city was the subject of Adolf Hitler's Directive No. 30, which expressed support for that coup's perpetrators, a group of four nationalist generals known as the Golden Square and led by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. During World War I, Frederick Stanley Maude captured this city from Khalil Pasha, thereby avenging a British surrender at the Siege of Kut during the previous year. It's not Cairo, but this city was also the site of a coup in which a monarch was deposed by a Free Officers Movement. That event, the 14 July Revolution, led to Abd al-Karim Qasim's order to murder King Faisal II, whose body was then dragged through the streets of this city. The Barmakids supervised the construction of this "Round City" at the order of Al-Mansur. It was brutally sacked in 2003, as well as in 1258 by Hulagu Khan, who destroyed this city's House of Wisdom, which was founded by Harun al-Rashid. For 10 points, name this former capital of the Abbasid caliphate and current capital of Iraq.
A 1941 coup in this city was the subject of Adolf Hitler's Directive No. 30, which expressed support for that coup's perpetrators, a group of four nationalist generals known as the Golden Square and led by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani.
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