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Tabby cats are thought to get their name from Attab, a district in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq.
Tabby cats are thought to get their name from Attab, a district in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq.
It is thought that I got my name from some mystical place. Turns out, it was an inside joke between my folks.
Researchers believe the word “tabby” comes from Attabiyah, a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Tabbies got their name because their striped coats resembled the famous wavy patterns in the silk produced in this city.