-
forward marches,
comprising a
chain of
fortified strongholds,
known as al-
thughūr (اَلـثُّـغُـوْر; sing. al-thagr, اَلـثَّـغْـر, "cleft, opening"), and the...
-
Qinnasrin by
Caliph Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786 the jund of al-Awasim and al-
Thughur were
established from the
northern frontier region of
Qinnasrin by Caliph...
- meaning). Its
Islamic counterpart in
Cilicia and
Mesopotamia was the al-
thughūr.
Digenes Akritas Karbeas Kazhdan 1991, p. 1132; Glykatzi-Ahrweiler 1960...
-
Muslim conquest Rashiduns Bilad al-Sham
Palestine Homs al-Urdun
Qinnasrin Thughūr Umayyads Abbasids Fatimids Hamdanids Jarrahids Mirdasids Banu
Munqidh Banu...
- the
sacking of Theodosiopolis, as well as
successful raids in the Arab
Thughur. Then, in 904 the
renegade Leo of
Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his...
- Tulunids,
under the
pretext of a
jihad to
defend the
frontier districts (
Thughur)
against the Byzantines,
occupied Syria. This
campaign was
ended prematurely...
- decades. In a
series of
campaigns he
recovered the
provinces of Jazira,
Thughur, and Jibal, and
effected a
rapprochement with the
Saffarids in the east...
- John Kourkouas,
began a
sustained offensive into the
borderlands of the
Thughur and Armenia. As a result, in
February 929 a
palace revolt briefly replaced...
-
responsibility for the
entirety of
Syria and the
Cilician frontier zone (
Thughur) with the
Byzantine Empire. In 881, Ibn
Tulun added his own name to coins...
-
conquered by the
Umayyad Caliphate and
became part of the
Islamic borderlands (
thughur) with the Romans. The
region had, however, been
almost completely depo****ted...
