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Dabil (Dvin)

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Dabil (Dvin) of the third Armenia's cities; Anushirwan settled and fortified it; Habib ibn Maslama besieged its people and sat upon it until the Roman Maurian met him, night-attacked and killed him and spoiled his camp — in al-Waqidi's report — while the sounder version with them has Salman meeting the Maurian at Qaliqala. In 280 the city was buried by an earthquake after a Shawwal eclipse — about a hundred houses surviving, thirty thousand dead pulled from the rubble 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
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Levant & Iraq
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Dabil: one of the third-rank cities of Armenia. Anushirvan built it and fortified it. In the account of al-Waqidi, Habib ibn Maslama besieged its people, and al-Murayan the Byzantine met him, attacked him by night and killed him, and took booty from his camp. The firmer account among them is that Salman met al-Murayan at Qaliqala. 2

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Earthquake of Dabil· Khuzayma ibn Khazim Institutes the Land Survey at Dabil and Nashwa
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Armenia

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Khuzayma ibn Khazim Institutes the Land Survey at Dabil and Nashwa· Armenia· the Armenia–Azerbaijan treaty (25 AH)· Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March· Habib ibn Maslama's Circuit of Armenia· Jalal al-Din plunders Armenia· Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia· The Patrikioses' Killing of Yusuf al-Marwazi

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 143
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Khuzayma ibn Khazim Institutes the Land Survey at Dabil and Nashwa

In al-Baladhuri: Armenia's Abbasid governors ran in succession — Uthman ibn Umada ibn Khurathim, then Rawh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi, then Khuzayma ibn Khazim, then Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani, then Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi, then al-Fadl ibn Yahya, then Sa'id ibn Salm, then Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Mazyad; Khuzayma was the sternest of them in office, and it was he who instituted the land-survey at Dabil and Nashwa, which had not existed before. The Armenian patrikioses ever stayed in their lands, each guarding his district: when a march-governor arrived they surrounded him — if they saw continence and sternness in him while he had force and equipment, they paid him the kharaj and yielded obedience, but otherwise despised him and made light of his command; and Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mazyad governed them in al-Ma'mun's caliphate, accepting their gifts and mixing them with his own person — that deed corrupted them and emboldened them against al-Ma'mun's governors who came after.