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Great Zab
Tigris tributary in northern Iraq, where the Abbasids beat the last Umayyad caliph in January 750.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q756018
Appears in
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The Islamic Golden Age
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The Abbasids win on the Great Zab
Jumada al-Akhira 132 AH
Sources
Book
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
Website
The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258)