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The House of Wisdom in Baghdad became a major centre for translation, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.

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Baghdad's House of Wisdom gathered scholars to translate Greek, Persian and Indian works and to advance mathematics and astronomy — a beacon of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Bağdat'taki Bilgelik Evi; çeviri, matematik, astronomi ve tıp için önemli bir merkez hâline geldi.

Bağdat'ın Bilgelik Evi, Yunan, Fars ve Hint eserlerini çevirmek ve matematik ile astronomiyi ilerletmek için bilginleri bir araya getirdi — İslam'ın Altın Çağı'nın bir feneri.

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