{"id":2261,"date":"2025-07-24T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/rafiqa-city-walls-and-baghdad-gate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:15:03","slug":"rafiqa-city-walls-and-baghdad-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/rafiqa-city-walls-and-baghdad-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafiqa City Walls and Baghdad Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 772 CE, Caliph al-Mansur founded the city of al-R\u0101fiqah adjacent to ancient Raqqa and constructed an oval-shaped wall stretching 5,300 meters in length.<\/p>\n<p>Baghdad Gate has remained in relatively good condition, with its brick fa\u00e7ade and winding decorations reminiscent of the Samarra style. A 2017 bombing damaged part of the northern fa\u00e7ade, but an international restoration project reinstated the central arch using lime mortar and discreet carbon fiber panels.<\/p>\n<p>The gate stands as a symbol of the urban development that flourished alongside the Silk Road\u2019s River trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 772 CE, Caliph al-Mansur founded the city of al-R\u0101fiqah adjacent to ancient Raqqa and constructed an oval-shaped wall stretching 5,300 meters in length. Baghdad Gate has remained in relatively good condition, with its brick fa\u00e7ade and winding decorations reminiscent of the Samarra style. A 2017 bombing damaged part of the northern fa\u00e7ade, but an international restoration project reinstated the central arch using lime mortar and discreet carbon fiber panels. The gate stands as a symbol of the urban development that flourished alongside the Silk Road\u2019s River trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,259],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-raqa","category-gates-and-towers","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}