{"id":38655,"count":1,"description":"Mansura (Arabic: \u0645\u0646\u0635\u0648\u0631\u06c1\u200e) was the historic capital of the Arab empire in Sindh. The city now lies in Western Pakistan and is usually known as Brahmanabad in Sindh, situated about 8 miles (13\u00a0km) south-east of Shahdadpur railway station, and 43 miles (69\u00a0km) north-east of Hyderabad.\nThe city was the first in the Muslim world constructed by using the principles of town planning later used throughout Muslim territory including in the construction of Baghdad 17 years after the city's foundation. Built by Khalid ibn Barmak, a Muslim governor of the Umayyad Caliphate who was a Persianized descendent of Kashmiri Brahmans or Buddhist priests who had moved to Balkh in present day Afghanistan. Mansura was originally called Brahmanabad after its Brahman builder who would later play a decisive role in building Baghdad in modern day Iraq where he protested against the use of material from ancient Mesopotamian Ctesiphon to build the new city. The Barmakids wielded great influence with the Arabs....","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mansura\/","name":"Mansura","slug":"mansura","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/38655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=38655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}