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• n  the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus

• Umayyad
• Ommiad
• Omayyad

News & Articles

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• Steve Coll: Obama sends weapons to Syria.
  The carved minaret above Aleppo’s twelfth-century Umayyad Mosque collapsed in April. The city, which is Syria’s most populous, has endured Hittite, Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman rule, little of it benevolent. But this year, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have delivered a distinctly . . .
  June 24, 2013 - The New Yorker

Quotes

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• Karen Armstrong in The News - International
  Armstrong writes: "Where the Umayyad caliphs had regularly visited the Holy City and were familiar figures about town, the Abbasids were remote celebrities, and a visit from any one of them was a major event:As soon as Caliph al-Mansur finally...