The Battle of the Zab (Arabic: معركة الزاب), also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the Great Zāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on...

Zab or ZAB may refer to: The Zab rivers: Great Zab, or Upper Zab, river tributary to the Tigris Little Zab, or Lower Zab, river tributary to the Tigris...

The Great Zab or Upper Zab (Arabic: الزَّاب الْكَبِيْر, romanized: ez-Zâb el-Kebîr; Kurdish: Zêy Badînan or Zêyê Mezin; Turkish: Zap; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܥܠܝܐ...

starting with the Great Berber Revolt of 740, and ending with the Battle of the Zab, and the destruction of the Umayyad Caliphate. The first wave of modern historians...

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the great mosque of Kufa. The Umayyad Caliphate fell in 750 at the Battle of the Zab. Abu Muslim had raised an army that included Muslims and non-Muslims...

Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah on the banks of the Great Zab, called Battle of the Zab. At this battle alone, over 300 members of the Umayyad family died. Marwan...

January 25 – Battle of the Zab: Abbasid forces under Abdallah ibn Ali defeat the Umayyads near the Great Zab River. Members of the Umayyad house are hunted...

One of his priorities was to eliminate his Umayyad rival, caliph Marwan II. The latter was defeated in February 750 at a battle on the (Great) Zab river...

toward Iraq. In January 750 the two forces met in the Battle of the Zab, and the Umayyads were defeated. Damascus fell to the Abbasids in April, and in...

at the Battle of the Zab. Abu Muslim stormed Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad caliphate, later that year. The Abbasid army consisted primarily of Khorasanians...

territory. The Qays were Marwan's principal military source in the Battle of the Zab in 750, in which Marwan was killed; shortly after, the Umayyad realm...

The Little Zab or Lower Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal; Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk; Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ...

Khurasan near Talas. After eliminating the entire Umayyad family and achieving victory at the Battle of the Zab, Al-Saffah and his forces marched into...

Mesopotamia. On 16 January 750 the two forces met on the left bank of a tributary of the Tigris in the Battle of the Zab, and nine days later Marwan II...

them in the Battle of the Zab effectively ending their rule in all parts of the Empire with the exception of al-Andalus. In 762, the second Abbasid Caliph...

of Asturias captures Galicia, reestablishing the Kingdom of Galicia. 25 January. The Umayyads are defeated at the Battle of the Zab, leading to the Abbasid...

Battle of Maskin 743–750 Third Fitna January 25, 750 Battle of the Zab September 762 – February 763 Alid Revolt 809–827 Fourth Fitna 812–813 Siege of Baghdad...

crushed any hope of expansion while the Umayyad Empire was still united, before the Battle of the Zab, at which the Umayyads were defeated by their Abbasid...

December 1, Heraclius crossed the Great Zab River and camped near the ruins of the capital of the former Assyrian Empire of Nineveh in Persian ruled Assyria/Assuristan...

Iraq to join the Tigris north of the town of Baiji. The Dukan Dam straddles the Little Zab some 150 miles upstream from its confluence with the Tigris River...

revolt Battle of the Zab 750 Arab–Byzantine wars 780–1180 Battle of Krasos 804/5 Battle of Anzen 838 Sack of Amorium 838 Sack of Damietta (853) Battle of Lalakaon...

of Marwan II, quelled in 745–46. The Umayyad army is subsequently defeated in 750 at the Battle of the Zab by the Abbasids, who take control of the entire...

among the Qays and Yaman tribes began to manifest themselves. After news of the defeat of the Umayyad Caliph Marwan II at the Battle of the Zab and the Abbasid...

750, the Abbasids, having already beaten the Umayyads in the Battle of the Zab in Iraq, conquered Damascus after facing little resistance. With the heralding...

them in the Battle of the Zab effectively ending their rule in all parts of the Empire with the exception of al-Andalus. In 762, the second Abbasid Caliph...

confront the Umayyad caliph Marwan II (r. 744–750) in the Jazira. Thus Abd Allah held the supreme command in the decisive Battle of the Zab, where the Abbasid...

already beaten the Umayyads in the Battle of the Zab in Iraq, conquered Damascus after facing little resistance. With the heralding of the Abbasid Caliphate...

assault the Jazira in 750, where they inflicted a decisive defeat against Marwan's troops, gathered from the Jazira and Syria, at the Battle of the Zab. Among...

The Khazir River (Arabic: الخازر) is a river of northern Iraq, a tributary of the Great Zab river, joining its right bank. The area around the Khazir River...