The day he took over the caliphate, his wife gave birth to Mamun al-Rashid. Under Haroon Rashid, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad, reached its peak. He built a new palace in Baghdad that was bigger and more beautiful than all the previous palaces, including his famous court, to which thousands of courtiers belonged.
He later moved to Darbar al-Raqqa, Syria, in view of the situation in Syria, but said Baghdad was better than any other place in the world. Aaron is known to have wandered the streets of the capital in disguise at night to find out the problems of the people. However, according to some historians, these incidents are merely the traditions of the royalists, but he was certainly an informed ruler.
In addition to his passion for knowledge, poetry and music, Haroon was himself a scholar and poet, and whenever he came across a scholar in his kingdom or in neighboring kingdoms, he would invite him to his court. During this period, the Abbasid Caliphate established diplomatic relations with China and France.
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Harun ur rashid fighting skills
In the military, Aaron was a valiant soldier who showed the essence of his bravery when his father was caliph. He later commanded an army of 95,000 against the Byzantine Empire, which was then under Queen Erin. After defeating Erin’s well-known General Nektus, Aaron’s army encamped in Crisopoulos (now Oscodar, Turkey), in the Asian part just opposite Constantinople.
When the queen saw that the Muslim forces were about to take over the city, she sent ambassadors for a treaty, but Aaron refused to accept all the conditions, demanding an immediate surrender. An ambassador is said to have said that the queen has heard a lot about your abilities as a general, even though you are her enemy, but she values you as a soldier. Aaron was pleased with these words and told the ambassadors to tell their queen that if she continued to give us 70,000 ashrafs annually, no Muslim army would harm Constantinople. The queen accepted the condition and paid tribute to the first year on which the Muslim forces returned home.
After paying tribute for many years, the 802 Nice Force refused to pay tribute and declared war. Aaron came up against the Nice Force with a large army and besieged the Black Sea town of Heraclius, agreeing to pay tribute to the Nice Force again. But as soon as the caliph arrived in Baghdad, he retreated again, at which point Aaron again attacked Asia Minor with 15,000 men, while the Romans numbered 125,000, but he was defeated by Aaron and the Nice force was wounded. And 40,000 of its soldiers were killed.