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unusual facts about Umayyad dynasty



680

Caliph Muawiyah I, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty, dies after 19-year reign in which he has restored unity to the Arabian Empire despite opposition from Shiites and renewed military offensives against nonbelievers.

Religion in Morocco

Islam reached Morocco in 680 CE, taken to the country by the Arab Umayyad dynasty of Damascus.


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Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

The Umayyads fell to the Abbasid Caliphate and the surviving member of the Umayyad Dynasty, Abd ar-Rahman I, fled to Córdoba.