# Map of the Abbasid Caliphate

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/abbasid-caliphate/

On the Geographic History map, the Abbasid Caliphate appears from AD 751 to 1258. It reaches its largest mapped extent in AD 758: about 7.6 million km² across 181 provinces.

The Abbasid Caliphate took power from the Umayyads in 750 and moved the capital to Baghdad, founded in 762. In the time of Harun al-Rashid and al-Mamun, Baghdad became a centre of learning where Greek, Persian and Indian works were translated into Arabic. Real power slipped away from the caliphs from the 10th century, and in 1258 the Mongols sacked Baghdad and killed the last caliph there.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- AD 751: 7,183,000
- AD 776: 7,594,000
- AD 801: 7,242,000
- AD 826: 6,282,000
- AD 851: 3,827,000
- AD 876: 2,829,000
- AD 901: 2,944,000
- AD 926: 2,657,000
- AD 951: 1,940,000
- AD 976: 369,000
- 1001: 262,000
- 1026: 262,000
- 1051: 262,000
- 1076: 0
- 1101: 0
- 1126: 0
- 1151: 0
- 1176: 305,000
- 1201: 305,000
- 1226: 305,000
- 1251: 245,000

## About this map

Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.