Bugha's Rebuilding of Shamkur as al-Mutawakkiliyya

عمارة بُغا لشمكور وتسميتها المتوكلية

c. 854 CE · 240 AH

In al-Baladhuri from a company of Bardha'a's people: Shamkur was an ancient city which Salman ibn Rabi'a al-Bahili's man took, and it stayed peopled and prosperous until the Sawardiyya ruined it — a people who gathered in the days of Yazid ibn Asid's departure from Armenia, whose power hardened and whose raids multiplied; then Bugha, mawla of al-Mu'tasim, rebuilt it in year 240 while governor of Armenia, Adharbayjan and Shimshat, settling in it a people who had come out to him from the Khazars under safe-conduct desiring Islam, transferring to it the merchants of Bardha'a, and naming it al-Mutawakkiliyya.

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Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March

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.

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