It all began with Pelayo—a rebel, a warrior, and the man who refused to surrender. At Covadonga, deep in the Asturian ...

The succeeding Arab caliphates ruling the Muslim world for over six hundred years from Damascus and Baghdad, the Umayyad caliphate (661-750 C.E.) and the Abbasid caliphate (750-1258 C.E.), ...

The Umayyads Caliphate (661–750) After the head (the fourth caliph of our original quartet) of the Rashidun caliphate was murdered the caliphate was taken over by the Umayyads.

The Umayyad Caliphate covered 5.02 million square miles of land - more than 8% of the earth's landmass.. The empire had 62 million people between 720 and 750 — nearly 30% of the world's ...

The Umayyad were replaced by the Abbasid, who set up the longest-lasting caliphate (750-1258). The last major caliphate was that of the Ottomans and lasted from 1301 to 1922.

His would be the newest caliphate in a line extending from the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661), through the Umayyads (661-750), Abbasids (750-1517) and Ottomans (1453-1924).

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a ...

The Abbasid caliphate in 751 was in its ascendency, having replaced the Umayyad Caliphate in 750. When the Abbasids began their open revolt in 747 the first city taken was Merv ( Mary, in modern ...

The 6th century gold dinar dates from when the Umayyad Caliphate ruled from the year 660 to 750. Coins from the period are common but the Arabic phrase inscribed on the dinar is said to be rare.

In the Umayyad Caliphate (AD661 - 750) designers started making them patterned or striped. ... During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD751 - 1258), black became the ceremonial colour for court officials.