Gates of Baghdad

The gates of Baghdad (Arabic: أبواب بغداد) are the several bab, meaning gate in Arabic, connected by walls surrounding the city of Baghdad.

The gates and the walls were designed to protect the city from foreign incursions.

Today the area is the neighborhood of Karkh in Mansour district, which located in southwest Baghdad.

During the late Abbasid era, the 28th caliph, al-Mustazhir, laid out a plan to expand the enclosure with additional walls, gates, moats and obstructions against invaders.

These four gates remained long after the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate.