Shirakavan

City · c. 886–1045 CE · in Europe

Capital of Bagratid Armenia (886–1045).

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• Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258 CE): The Abbasid dynasty, descended from Muhammad's uncle, took the caliphate from the Umayyads and ruled from Iraq, presiding over the Islamic Golden Age.
• House of Wisdom (c. 830 CE): An Abbasid centre of scholarship in Baghdad that flourished under Caliph al-Ma'mun, where scholars translated Greek, Persian and Indian works into Arabic.
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• Christianization of Kievan Rus' (988 CE): Vladimir the Great adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium and had the people of Kyiv baptised in the Dnieper.

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