The Battle of Basra was a major engagement of the Zanj Rebellion, fought on September 7–10, 871. Zanj rebels and allied Arab tribesmen, led by Yahya ibn...

Caliphate Battle of Basra (871), Zanj capture of Basra Battle of Basra (1914), British capture Basra from the Ottoman Empire in Mesopotamian campaign Basra offensive...

Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph (r. 870–892) during Zanj Rebellion. Afro-Iraqi Battle of Basra (871) Kennedy 2004, pg. 178 Caskel 1960, p. 921. Rodriguez 2007, p. 585...

Year 871 (DCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The English retreat onto the Berkshire Downs. The Great Heathen Army,...

slaves of the lowlands affected the area. In 871, the Zanj sacked Basra. In 923, the Qarmatians, an extremist Muslim sect, invaded and devastated Basra. From...

869 – Zanj Rebellion Battle of Basra (871) – 871 – Zanj Rebellion Battle of Baghdad (946) – 946 – Buyid-Hamdanid Wars Siege of Baghdad (1136) – 1136...

and several towns and villages were occupied or sacked. Basra itself fell in September 871 following an extended blockade, after which the city was burned...

following is a timeline of the history of the city of Basra, Iraq. 638 CE - Military camp established by Utbah ibn Ghazwan per order of Omar ibn al-Khattab...

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following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...

al-Muhtadi. Beginning of Zanj Rebellion in Basra. 870: Turks revolt against Muhtadi, his death and accession of al-Mu'tamid. Fragmentation of Abbasid Empire...

Euphrates rivers. Originally dispatched to capture the Shatt al Arab and Basra, to protect the British oilfields in Iran, Force "D"'s mission in Mesopotamia...

migrated to Syria and Basra. Many of those who went to Syria later moved to Khurasan as part of the Umayyad garrison there. As a sub-tribe of Qays, they fought...

soldiers each. These Basra contingents were further reinforced by garrison of Kufa, governed by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, before the battle against Hormuzan....

September – Battle of Basra: Zanj rebels in Mesopotamia sack and capture Basra (see Zanj Rebellion). The Cairo Genizah, a collection of Jewish manuscript...

War War of the Camps (1985–88) – Lebanese Civil War Siege of Basra (1987) – Iran–Iraq War Siege of Jeffna (1987) – Sri Lankan Civil War Battle of Kokavil...

governor of Basra in 664 and was also made governor of Kufa and its dependencies in 670, making him the viceroy of the entire eastern half of the Islamic...

surrounding regions; many people of Basra, for example, fled their city for safer areas after learning of the Zanj's victory. In 871, the Zanj leader sent 'Ali...

the abdication of his son Hasan in 661, Busr was appointed governor of Basra. There he was instrumental in securing the submission of Ziyad ibn Abihi...

Meccans. In the proceeding decades, the area of Basra was conquered by the Muslims. During the reign of Umar, the Muslim army found it a suitable place...

position was vacant, to the governor of Basra. Unless he received specific commands from the caliph, the governor of Iraq had the authority to appoint and...

recaptured Aden from the Portuguese. Piri Reis subdued the local Bedouin rulers of Basra in 1547 and began building a Persian Gulf fleet. The fleet conducted annual...

Abbasid seaport of Al-Ubdullah at the Persian Gulf, and cut off communications with Basra (modern Iraq). February 28 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople...

leadership. Following the sack of Basra by the Zanj in 871, Abu Ahmad was also conferred an extensive governorship, covering most of the lands still under direct...

each from Kufa and Basra (dubbed the "Peacock Army" due to the splendor of their equipment and the participation of numerous members of Arab nobility). His...

(1969). "Al-Hazen: Father of Modern Optics". Al-'Arabi. 8: 12–13. PMID 11634474.[full citation needed] Visser, Reidar (2005). Basra, the Failed Gulf State:...

II dispatched 2,000 Kalbite soldiers to reinforce the Umayyad governor of Basra, they instead defected to the Abbasids. The Kalb's role in Syria declined...

Baghdad, Basra and Mosul. The vast majority of the remaining 450,000 to 900,000 Christians in Iraq are Assyrians. Significant persecution of Iraqi Christians...

September 5, 2009. Hudson, John (2012). The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Vol. II (871–1216) (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 424–425...

Caliphate in 1172, Ibn Mardanīsh did not survive the defeat and was killed in battle, leading to his father pledging allegiance to the Almohad Caliph Abū Ya’qūb...