Qinnašrīn (Arabic: قنشرين, romanized: Qinnašrīn; Syriac: ܩܢܫܪܝܢ, romanized: Qennešrin, lit. 'Nest of Eagles'; Latin: Chalcis ad Belum; Greek: Χαλκὶς,...
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cavalry, the Mobile guard. It took place in June 637, three miles east of Qinnasrin at Al-Hadher in present-day Syria. After the conquest of Jerusalem, Caliph...
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Qinnasrin by Caliph Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786 the jund of al-Awasim and al-Thughur were established from the northern frontier region of Qinnasrin by...
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The Battle of Qinnasrin took place between the Zengids and the County of Tripoli following a successful campaign against Antioch led by Imad al-Din Zengi...
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Jund Qinnasrīn (Arabic: جُـنْـد قِـنَّـسْـرِيْـن, "military district of Qinnasrin") was one of five sub-provinces of Syria under the Umayyad and Abbasid...
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Bab Qinnasrin (Arabic: بَاب قِنَّسْرِيْن, romanized: Bāb Qinnasrīn), meaning the Gate of Qinnasrin is one of the gates of the medieval Old City of Aleppo...
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caliphs Mu'awiya I or Yazid I and came under the jurisdiction of Jund Qinnasrin. It was made its own province in 692 by Caliph Abd al-Malik. After 702...
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Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah in the sieges of Homs and Aleppo and the Battle of Qinnasrin, all in 637–638. These engagements collectively precipitated the retreat...
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Banu Kilab (section Banu Zufar of Qinnasrin)
led the rebel Qays nomads of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) and Jund Qinnasrin (northern Syria). He obtained from the Umayyads privileges later inherited...
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Byzantine rule. Al-Hadher served as the headquarters of Jund Qinnasrin, (military district of Qinnasrin). "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2017-10-20...
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Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo Azaz Marj al-Saffar al-Atharib Rafaniyya Antioch Qinnasrin Ba'rin 2nd Aleppo 2nd Shaizar Edessa 1144 Edessa 1146 Bosra Second Crusade...
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the 8th and 9th centuries, the Tanukhid strongholds were the cities of Qinnasrin and Maarat al-Numan. In the late 2nd century, a branch of the tribe of...
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Tiberias; Dimashq centered around Damascus; Hims centered around Hims; and Qinnasrin centered around Chalcis.[citation needed] Traditionally, it is held that...
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incursions, Yazid established the northern Syrian frontier district of Qinnasrin from what had been a part of Hims, and garrisoned it. Yazid reappointed...
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south and launched an offensive against Qinnasrin, however Zengi repelled this attack in the Battle of Qinnasrin. Baldwin, Marshall W. A History of the...
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and Tanukh, largely inhabited the districts of Filastin, al-Urdunn and Hims, while the Qays inhabited al-Jazirah, the Byzantine frontier and Qinnasrin....
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suggested that he might have been a native of Edessa who later moved to Qinnasrin after being ordained a monk. A collection of sermons is attributed to...
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migrated from the Arabian Peninsula and established themselves in Jund Qinnasrin, the military district of the northern region of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia...
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authority. After Mu'awiya II died in 684, the junds of Palestine, Homs and Qinnasrin recognized Ibn al-Zubayr, while loyalist tribes in Damascus and al-Urdunn...
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Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo Azaz Marj al-Saffar al-Atharib Rafaniyya Antioch Qinnasrin Ba'rin 2nd Aleppo 2nd Shaizar Edessa 1144 Edessa 1146 Bosra Second Crusade...
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after the death of Mu'awiya II. Al-Dahhak in Damascus, the Qays tribes in Qinnasrin (northern Syria) and the Jazira, the Judham in Palestine, and the Ansar...
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Medina-Sidonia and Jerez, the Emesa (Hims) jund in Seville and Niebla, and the Qinnasrin jund in Jaén. The Egypt jund was divided between Beja (Alentejo) in the...
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When Abu Ubayda died in 639, Iyad succeeded him as governor of Hims, Qinnasrin and al-Jazira. In the latter territory, he launched a campaign to assert...
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fortress, Qala'at al-Sharif, outside the city into Aleppo's enclosure. Bab Qinnasrin was completely rebuilt by an-Nasir Yusuf in 1256. This gate stands today...
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Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo Azaz Marj al-Saffar al-Atharib Rafaniyya Antioch Qinnasrin Ba'rin 2nd Aleppo 2nd Shaizar Edessa 1144 Edessa 1146 Bosra Second Crusade...
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Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo Azaz Marj al-Saffar al-Atharib Rafaniyya Antioch Qinnasrin Ba'rin 2nd Aleppo 2nd Shaizar Edessa 1144 Edessa 1146 Bosra Second Crusade...
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Hejaz Ifriqiya Iraq Sawad Jazira Jibal Khurasan Sindh Syria Awasim Jund al-Urdunn Jund Dimashq Jund Filastin Jund Hims Jund Qinnasrin Tabaristan Yemen...
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(Khanasir) Barcusus (Baquza or Banqusa) Beroea (Aleppo) Chalcis in Syria (Qinnasrin) Gabala (Jableh) Gabula (at the marsh of Al-Jabbul) Gindarus (Jandairis)...
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Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo Azaz Marj al-Saffar al-Atharib Rafaniyya Antioch Qinnasrin Ba'rin 2nd Aleppo 2nd Shaizar Edessa 1144 Edessa 1146 Bosra Second Crusade...
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Iamblichus' biographer, Eunapius, Iamblichus was born in Chalcis (later called Qinnašrīn) in Coele, now in northwest Syria. Iamblichus was descended from the Emesene...
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