Name: Conquest of Qarqisiya (16 AH)
Start: 0637

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Qarqisiya on the Euphrates was conquered in 16 in the wake of Masbadhan's fall, part of the Jazira conquest movement ¹.

The Jazira

The Euphratean Jazira, the land between the Euphrates and the Tigris; conquered by Iyad ibn Ghanm after Abu Ubayda's death — 'the whole Jazira is Iyad ibn Ghanm's conquest' in Maymun ibn Mihran's words — marching for it mid-Sha'ban year 18 in five thousand; its cities include al-Ruha, Harran, al-Raqqa, Nasibin, Sinjar, Mosul and the Tigris kuwar, and with Syria it became the field of the summer and winter raids on the Byzantines.

Conquest of Qarqisiya (16 AH)

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The Jazira