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Caesarea of Cappadocia

قيصرية ⁦(مزاكا)⁩

Ancient city of Cappadocia in modern-day Turkey.

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Battle of Caesarea· Battle of Caesarea (654)· Battle of Caesarea (781)· Battle of Melas River (759)

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Muhammad al-Mahdi· Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir· Uthman ibn Affan· Battle of Caesarea· Battle of Caesarea (654)· Battle of Caesarea (781)· Battle of Melas River (759)

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islam.museum contributors. “Caesarea of Cappadocia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/caesarea-of-cappadocia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.