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Umayyads may
refer to:
Umayyad dynasty, a
Muslim ruling family of the
Caliphate (661–750) and in
Spain (756–1031)
Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) Emirate...
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father after the
civil war, with the
Umayyads defeating the
Byzantines at the
Battle of
Sebastopolis in 692. The
Umayyads frequently raided Byzantine Anatolia...
- The
Umayyad dynasty (Arabic: بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, romanized: Banū Umayya, lit. 'Sons of Umayya') or
Umayyads (Arabic: الأمويون, romanized: al-Umawiyyūn) were...
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Iberia for over two
centuries when it was
conquered by the
Umayyad Caliphate. The
Umayyads had
previously conducted small raids on the
southern tip of...
- Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri
landed to
claim the
territory from the
Umayyads. However, an
Umayyad army was
decisively defeated by
Pelagius of
Asturias at the...
- appearance, and
therefore the 8th-century
Umayyad mihrab may have had
these features.
Following the
toppling of the
Umayyads in 750, the
Abbasid dynasty came to...
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Iberian peninsula (711–718). The
Umayyad invasion occurred in two main phases, from AD 719 and from 732.
Although the
Umayyads secured control of Septimania...
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governor of Syria,
became the
first Umayyad caliph. The
Umayyads made
Damascus their capital.
Under the
Umayyads the Arab
empire continued to expand,...
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remnants of the
Umayyad clan to take
refuge in
their dominions. It was a
fateful decision that they soon regretted, for the
Umayyads, the sons and grandsons...
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achievements of the
Syrian people". The name of the
square is a
reference to the
Umayyads who took
Damascus as the
capital of
their caliphate in the 7th century...
