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Mar'ash (Germanikeia)

مرعش

Mar'ash (Germanikeia) of the Syrian-Jaziran marchland at the A'maq; Khalid ibn al-Walid took its fortress at Abu Ubayda's dispatch from Manbij on its people's evacuation, demolishing it; Mu'awiya built it as a garrisoned city, al-Abbas ibn al-Walid rebuilt and fortified it, raised its congregational mosque and levied a yearly contingent on Qinnasrin for it, and it passed through building and ruin between Marwan ibn Muhammad and the Romans until Salih ibn Ali rebuilt it in al-Mansur's caliphate and al-Mahdi enlarged its garrison; on its depths fell Michael's incursion of year 161, met by the sortie of Isa ibn Ali's mawalis.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Taking and Settling of Mar'ash· Michael's Incursion on the Mar'ash Depths, 161

People and things also explored

Muhammad al-Mahdi· The Conquest of the Jazira· Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah· al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba· Isa ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas· Khalid ibn al-Walid· Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Salih ibn Ali

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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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.