Iraqi folklore

collection of Middle Eastern folk stories

5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)

fictional sailor

folk tale from middle east, in '1001 Nights'

story from the One Thousand and One Nights

thumb|The fortified desert city of Hatra, which had repelled three Roman and one Sasanian sieges, fell to the Sasanian king [[Shapur I in 241.]]

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thumb | right | alt=Kahramana Square, Baghdad. | Kahramana Square, Baghdad. Kahramana is a fountain located in Baghdad's al-Sa'doun Street depicting a scene from the legend of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; a story taken from One Thousand and One Nights in which the slave girl Marjana outwitted the thieves by tricking them into hiding inside jars over which she poured hot oil. The statue was officially opened in 1971 and was the work of the Iraqi sculptor, Mohammed Ghani Hikmat. It has become one of Baghdad's most iconic public artworks. In the aftermath of the US-led invasion of 2003, the wo