A fire devastates much of Baghdad in …
Years: 973 - 973
A fire devastates much of Baghdad in 973, killing some seventeen thousand people, many of them Jews.
This disaster contributes to the decline in Baghdad's Jewish population and its importance in the Jewish world.
Locations
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Arab people
- Jews
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Syrian people
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Buyid dynasty
