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forward marches,
comprising a
chain of
fortified strongholds,
known as al-
thughūr (اَلـثُّـغُـوْر; sing. al-thaghr, اَلـثَّـغْـر, "cleft, opening"), and...
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Qinnasrin by
Caliph Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786, the jund of al-Awasim and al-
Thughur were
established from the
northern frontier region of
Qinnasrin by Caliph...
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Muslim conquest Rashiduns Bilad al-Sham
Palestine Homs al-Urdun
Qinnasrin Thughūr Umayyads Abbasids Fatimids Hamdanids Jarrahids Mirdasids Banu
Munqidh Banu...
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administrative centre was at
first Toledo,
later Medinaceli. The
concept of al-
thughūr (الثغر), the
frontier zones or
marches between the dār al-ḥarb and the...
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often also
exercised the
governorship of the
entire Syrian marches (al-
thughur al-Shamiyya), and
their main duty was
organizing the
annual raids against...
- John Kourkouas,
began a
sustained offensive into the
borderlands of the
Thughur and Armenia. As a result, in
February 929 a
palace revolt briefly replaced...
- the
sacking of Theodosiopolis, as well as
successful raids in the Arab
Thughur. Then, in 904 the
renegade Leo of
Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his...
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conquered by the
Umayyad Caliphate and
became part of the
Islamic borderlands (
thughur) with the Romans. The
region had, however, been
almost completely depo****ted...
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regions came to form the two-halves of a new
fortified frontier zone, the
thughur. Both the
Umayyads and
later the
Abbasids continued to
regard the annual...
- Tulunids,
under the
pretext of a
jihad to
defend the
frontier districts (
Thughur)
against the Byzantines,
occupied Syria. This
campaign was
ended prematurely...
