Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March
إصلاح بُغا الكبير ثغر أرمينية
between 852 and 855 CE
Armenia → Jurzan (Kartli/Iberia) → Arran
In al-Baladhuri: al-Mutawakkil gave Armenia to Bugha al-Kabir, who at Badhlis seized Musa ibn Zurara — one who had favoured Yusuf's killing and aided it in anger for Buqrat — warred on the Khwaythiyya, slaying a great slaughter and taking many captives, then besieged Ashut ibn Hamza ibn Jajiq, patrikios of Busfurrajan, at al-Baq, brought him down from his fortress and carried him to Samarra, marched on Jurzan where Ishaq ibn Isma'il was overcome and killed in cold blood, opened Jurzan, and carried off the people of Arran and the Armenian surface-dwellers in Sisajan — the rebellious and disobedient, Christians and others — till that march stood sounder than ever it had been; then he came to Samarra in the year 241.
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In time
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Connections
- Occurred at
- Armenia· Jurzan (Kartli/Iberia)· Arran
- Had participant
- Bugha, mawla of al-Mu'tasim (Bugha the Elder)· Ishaq ibn Isma'il ibn Shu'ayb· Musa ibn Zurara· المتوكل على الله
People and things also explored
Armenia· Arran· Jurzan (Kartli/Iberia)· Bugha's Rebuilding of Shamkur as al-Mutawakkiliyya· Habib ibn Maslama's Circuit of Armenia· Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia· Khuzayma ibn Khazim Institutes the Land Survey at Dabil and Nashwa· The Patrikioses' Killing of Yusuf al-Marwazi
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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