Astarabad owes its origin to Yazid ibn Mohallab, who occupied the province early in the 8th century for Suleiman, the seventh of the Omayyad caliphs (715-717), and was destroyed by Timur (Tamerlane) in 1384. [Please select]
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In modern times the sultans or rulers of Turkey have been commonly regarded as the caliphs. [Please select]
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Do Caliphs taste and unafraid, Turn storks, and weeping night-owls aid. [Please select]
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The descendants of Mohammed's family refused, however, to recognize the Ommiads as legitimate caliphs. [Please select]
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The new city, under the fostering care of the caliphs, grew with great rapidity. [Please select]
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Haroun-al-Raschid (Aaron the Just) was the greatest of all the caliphs of Bagdad. [Please select]
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Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were annexed as dependencies to the great Arabic Empire of the caliphs. [Please select]
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Great cruelties were practised by the Fatimite caliphs, who conquered Syria about the year 980. [Please select]
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Lincoln of the distinctive affix which he will share with many, for the most part foolish and incompetent, Kings and Emperors, Caliphs and Doges, that of being LINCOLN--'the Last.' [Please select]
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