(Irenopolis.) There is some dispute concerning the etymology of Bagdad, but the first syllable is allowed to signify a garden in the Persian tongue; the garden of Dad, a
Christian hermit, whose cell had been the only habitation on
the spot.
Medinat al Salem, Dar al Salem. Urbs pacis,
or, as it is more neatly compounded by the Byzantine writers,
(Irenopolis.) There is some dispute concerning the etymology of Bagdad, but the first syllable is allowed to signify a garden in the Persian tongue; the garden of Dad, a
Christian hermit, whose cell had been the only habitation on
the spot.