يزيد بن عبد الملك
The ninth Umayyad caliph, Abu Khalid, born in year 71; he took the caliphate after Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz by his brother Sulayman's designation. On accession he declared 'follow the sira of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz' — forty elders testified there is no reckoning or torment upon caliphs — yet per Ibn al-Majishun he kept Umar's ways forty days then turned aside. In year two Yazid ibn al-Muhallab rose and was routed by Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik at al-Aqr. He died in late Sha'ban 105.
Reign · Umayyad Caliphate · no. 9 in the chain · 720–724 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Battle of Balanjar (723)
Draft card for the Battle of Balanjar in 723, the Arab–Khazar battle of the first Caucasus war; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Covadonga
Draft card for the Battle of Covadonga around 722, the engagement told as the first Christian victory after the conquest of al-Andalus and the seed of the Asturian resistance; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Derbent (722)
Draft card for Battle of Derbent (722); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Olalíes (722)
Draft card for Battle of Olalíes (722); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Toulouse
Draft card for the Battle of Toulouse in 721, Duke Odo of Aquitaine's victory over the Umayyad army of al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Death of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz died at Dayr Sim'an in the district of Homs in Rajab year 101, aged thirty-nine and a half, poisoned — the Umayyads having wearied of his strictness against them and his seizure of much they had usurped, while he had let slip all self-protection; asked what people said of him, he told Mujahid they thought him bewitched but he knew the very hour the poison was given, and when his servant confessed to having taken a thousand dinars to administer it, he threw the sum into the treasury and sent him where no one would see him.