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Abbasid Fragmentation

The decades when regional dynasties such as the Tulunids, Samanids and Saffarids won real autonomy while Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad lost control of the army and provinces.

51 events

  1. 835 CE · 220 AH† · battle

    Battle of Enna (835)

    Place: Enna
  2. 865 CE · 251 AH† · battle

    Battle of the Morcuera

    Place: Bugedo
  3. c. 865 CE · 251 AH · revolt

    Qumm's Revolt and Re-Conquest

    Place: Qumm
  4. 253 AH · campaign

    Musa ibn Bugha's Daylam Campaign

    Commanders: al-Mu'tazz bi-llah · Musa ibn Bugha

    Place: Daylam
  5. 869 CE · 255 AH† · revolt

    The Zanj Rebellion

    Place: al-Ahwaz
  6. c. 877 CE · 263 AH · campaign

    Musa ibn Bugha's army sent to remove Ibn Tulun dissolves, 263/877
  7. c. 878 CE · 264 AH · conquest

    Ibn Tulun annexes Syria to Egypt, 264/878

    Commanders: Ahmad ibn Tulun

    Place: Damascus
  8. c. 879 CE · 265 AH · revolt

    Al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun's revolt and flight to Barqa, 265/879

    Place: Barqa (Cyrenaica)
  9. 882 CE · 268 AH† · battle

    Battle of Cellorigo

    Place: Cellorigo
  10. 882 CE · 268 AH† · battle

    Battle of Polizzi (882)

    Place: Polizzi Generosa
  11. 900 CE · 287 AH† · battle

    Battle of Balkh

    Place: Balkh
  12. 901 CE · 288 AH† · battle

    Day of Zamora

    Place: Samura
  13. 29 November 903 CE · 6 Muharram 291 AH† · battle

    Battle of Hama
  14. 904 CE · 291 AH† · raid

    Sack of Thessalonica

    Place: Salonik (Thessaloniki)
  15. 905 CE · 292 AH · conquest

    Fall of the Tulunid state and burning of al-Qata'i' (292 AH)

    Place: Al-Fustat
  16. 907 CE · 294 AH† · battle

    Battle of Fahs al-Riyah

    Place: Aurès Mountains
  17. 909 CE · 296 AH† · conquest

    Fall of Kairouan (909)

    Place: Qayrawan
  18. c. 909 CE · 297 AH · battle

    The battle at the gate of Shiraz, 297

    Place: Shiraz
  19. c. 909 CE · 297 AH · conquest

    al-Layth al-Saffar seizes Fars and Shiraz, 297

    Place: Shiraz
  20. c. 933 CE · c. 322 AH · revolt

    Al-Mutanabbi's rising and his imprisonment at Hims, 322/933

    Place: Hims (Emesa)
  21. Shawwal 327 AH · battle

    The battle of Samura (327 AH)

    Commanders: Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir li-Din Allah al-Umawi

    Place: Samura
  22. 939 CE · 327 AH† · battle

    Battle of Simancas

    Place: Simancas
  23. 952 CE · 341 AH† · battle

    Battle of Gerace (952)

    Place: Gerace
  24. 953 CE · 342 AH† · battle

    Battle of Marash

    Place: Mar'ash (Germanikeia)
  25. 954 CE · 343 AH† · battle

    Battle of Hadath (954)

    Place: Hadath
  26. 960 CE · 349 AH† · battle

    Battle of Andrassos

    Place: Taurus Mountains
  27. c. 965 CE · 354 AH · conquest

    Tarsus falls to the Byzantines, 354
  28. 997 CE · 387 AH · campaign

    al-Mansur's Raid on Shant Ya'qub (Santiago de Compostela)
  29. 1006 CE · 396 AH† · battle

    Battle of Alcala de Henares

    Place: Castle of Alcalá la Vieja
  30. 1009 CE · 399 AH · civil war

    The Cordoba Strife and the Rising of Ibn Abd al-Jabbar

    Commanders: هشام المؤيد بالله

    Place: Cordoba
  31. 1010 CE · 400 AH† · battle

    Sack of Cordoba (1010)

    Place: Cordoba
  32. c. 1013 CE · 403 AH · siege

    The Berbers enter Cordoba by storm

    Place: Cordoba
  33. 1015 CE · 406 AH · civil war

    The Shi'i–Sunni war at Wasit (406–407 AH)
  34. 1018 CE · 409 AH† · siege

    Siege of Granada (1018)

    Place: Granada
  35. c. 1071 CE · 463 AH · battle

    Battle of Manzikert and the Capture of the Roman King

    Commanders: Alp Arslan
  36. c. 1084 CE · 477 AH · conquest

    Sulayman ibn Qutlumush takes Antioch from the Romans

    Commanders: سليمان بن قتلمش السلجوقي

    Place: Antioch
  37. 1085 CE · 478 AH · conquest

    The Franks' taking of Toledo

    Place: Toledo
  38. c. 1086 CE · 479 AH · battle

    The Great Battle Between Ibn Tashfin and the Franks

    Place: Batlyus (Badajoz)
  39. c. 1091 CE · 484 AH · conquest

    The Franks Seize the Island of Sicily
  40. c. 1094 CE · c. 488 AH · conquest

    Capture of Valencia by al-Qanbiyatur (the Campeador)

    Commanders: ردريق القنبيطور

    Place: Valencia
  41. c. 1099 CE · 492 AH · conquest

    The Franks Seize Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem)

    Commanders: al-Mustazhir bi'llah Ahmad ibn al-Muqtadi

    Place: Masjid Al-Aqsa
  42. c. 1109 CE · 503 AH · conquest

    The Franks Take Tripoli of Syria

    Place: Tripoli (al-Sham)
  43. c. 18 December 1118 CE · c. 4 Ramadan 512 AH · conquest

    The fall of Zaragoza

    Place: Sarqusta (Zaragoza)
  44. c. 1120 CE · c. 514 AH · battle

    The battle of Cutanda
  45. c. 1130 CE · c. 524 AH · conquest

    The Fall of Tudela and Tarazona
  46. c. 17 October 1147 CE · c. 17 Jumada I 542 AH · conquest

    The fall of Almeria to the Christians, 542 AH
  47. c. 1148 CE · 543 AH · conquest

    Roger of Sicily Seizes Mahdiyya

    Commanders: Roger II of Sicily
  48. c. 1148 CE · 543 AH · battle

    Nur al-Din Lifts the Frankish Siege of Damascus

    Place: Damascus
  49. c. 1153 CE · 548 AH · battle

    The Ghuzz capture Sultan Sanjar
  50. 1195 CE · 9 Sha'ban 591 AH · battle

    The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)

    Commanders: يعقوب المنصور الموحدي

    Place: Cordoba
  51. · revolt

    Muhammad ibn al-Ba'ith's Revolt

    Place: Marand