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Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّام, romanized: Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates. It roughly corresponded with the Byzantine Diocese of the East, conquered by the Muslims in 634–647. Under ...
After the area originally inhabited by Jews, Edomites, Moabites and Ammonites was conquered by the Muslims in the 7th century CE, it became part of a Bilad al-Sham under the name Jund Filastin. Therefore, many aspects of Palestinian cuisine are similar to the cuisine of Syria—especially in the Galilee.
A part of the wider Arab-Byzantine Wars, the Levant was brought under Arab Muslim rule and developed into the provincial region of Bilad al-Sham. Clashes between the Arabs and Byzantines on the southern Levantine borders of the Byzantine Empire had occurred during the lifetime of Muhammad, with the Battle of Muʿtah in 629 CE. However, the ...
The group was established around late 2012 by Abu Obeida al-Masri during the start of the Syrian civil war in Aleppo, specifically Azaz. They were an ally to both Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (before the establishment of the so-called caliphate) and helped the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria defeat the Northern Storm Brigade in Azaz. [4]
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First of all, the phrase "Bilad al-Sham" or "Barr al-Sham" is just a colloquial phrase that was until the 19th century used as a name of Greater Syria. The phrases "Bilad al-Sham" and "Barr al-Sham" were not used by the Rashidun, Umayyads, Abbasids, etc. In the older Arabic literature one finds only "Al-Sham" الشام.
Migrants are being checked upon their arrival at the Reception Center for Migrant Care in Lajas Blancas, in the jungle province of Darien, Panama, on June 28, 2024.
Jama'at Ansar al-Furqan in Bilad al Sham (Arabic: جماعة أنصار الفرقان في بلاد الشام; lit."Supporters of the Criterion in the Levant") was an armed jihadist group that was active in Syria which was established in the fall of 2017 by former members of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar. [5]