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Show 264 dInars. several The Not all of them, worse was to yet able to afford were r:oweve, it.106 By the end of the 6th/12th come. , , the flood situation became century, the of the sift Tigris suI ted in the almost ltime, the dam same nor tb Tigris course completed artd its completion was total abandonment of the al-cAzaim the on of Takrit were First of 'all critical. more Nahrwan Nimrud River and the dest oryed, 107 All area. these dam At the on the happenings , re con- tributed to the serious floods that overflowed the banks of the Til and inundated the gris, No less than city. eight considerable size , floods tooplace in 7th/13th century the first half of the 1 and the r last two wet'e joined by the Euphrates to:,devastate be It .ould plain b&t all here, destructive: one too monotonous a clear For convent ence, these floods were. Mesopotamian enUmerate and discuss them examples will give two or to the picture of how the last two floods , of the cAbbisid period 108 thus are prsente? t In, 653/1255, broken open after were Baghdad. of the banks of "botih the I' period of'torrefttial rain in Mawsil and a G The water of the Tigris submered many of its districts. Baghdad nd Tigris and ,the Euphrates a great ,part of the wall Ill. the western city, the Mosque l06Ibn al-JawzI, ....;;.----ir-- I\tj, lOsusah, Fayadnatl • 10Some , his "Baghdad." neighbourhod east Baghdail, of th down. Vartm. West collaRsed 169-190. 324, 336. i hve ben summarized by al-Duri in reached the Nizamiyya and its floods "In 641/1243 of these floods ruined and. destroyed some a part It also flooded Ba8hdad •••• pp. x - lias 646/1248 floods r,In and quarers. reached ,the of the surrounded quartet;'s houses of its fell many Wall, Ru,ifa an and most submeTged, p. 902. 1-, h houses on the river , |
