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Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL ... Map of expansion of Caliphate-pt.svg Image:Age_of_Caliphs.png: ... Expansion of the caliphate, 622–750 CE ...
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English: Map of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern worlds around 740 CE. The original map(s) this is derived from are for the year 750, but neither the Abbasid Revolution nor the effects of the great Berber Revolt are shown on them, so the correct date for the 'maximum' extent of the Umayyad Caliphate should be around 740.
The Emirate of Córdoba, from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031. Its territory comprised most of the Iberian Peninsula (known to Muslims as al-Andalus ), the Balearic Islands , and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba (at the time Qurṭubah ).
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Map detailing the Rashidun Caliphate's invasion of the Levant. After Khalid ibn al-Walid consolidated his control of Iraq, Abu Bakr sent four armies to Syria on the Byzantine front under four different commanders: Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (acting as their supreme commander), Amr ibn al-As, Yazid ibn Abu Sufyan and Shurhabil ibn Hasana. However ...