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Jabala

جبلة

A coastal city of Syria's seaboard; Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan founded and garrisoned it after the Muslims took the town of Balda two farsakhs away by force — it fell ruined and its people departed — a Roman fortress its people had evacuated at the conquest of Hims.

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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
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Levant & Iraq
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Jabala is a coastal town on the coasts of Syria. According to al-Baladhuri it was a fortress of the Romans, who left it when Homs was conquered. Then the Muslims took by force a town two farsakhs from it, and it was ruined and its people left it. Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan founded Jabala and garrisoned it. 1

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.182
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