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2. Umayyad Caliphate - Wikipedia

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   At its greatest extent (661–750), the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.

3. Umayyad dynasty - Wikipedia

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   Umayyad authority was challenged in the Second Muslim Civil War, during which the Sufyanid line of Mu'awiya was replaced in 684 by Marwan I, who founded the Marwanid line of Umayyad caliphs, which restored the dynasty's rule over the Caliphate. The Islamic empire reached its largest geographical extent under the Umayyads. [1]

4. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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   The precise extent of either empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars. Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement. Possible ways of measuring size include area, population, economy, and power.

5. Caliphate - Wikipedia

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   At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 5.17 million square miles (13,400,000 km 2), making it the largest empire the world had yet seen and the seventh largest ever to exist in history. [24] Geographically, the empire was divided into several provinces, the borders of which changed numerous times during the Umayyad reign.

6. List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area ...

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   Western remnant of the Umayyad Caliphate lasting from 909–1171, estimated at its greatest extent in 969. ... Measured at its largest extent under Ferdinand II, ...

7. List of Muslim states and dynasties - Wikipedia

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   Following his death in 632 CE, his immediate successors established the Rashidun Caliphate. [ citation needed ] After that Muslim dynasties rose; some of these dynasties established notable and prominent Muslim empires, such as the Umayyad Empire and later the Abbasid Empire , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ottoman Empire centered around Anatolia , the Safavid ...

8. List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area ...

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   Largest ocean, including adjacent ... 220 AD. Size at greatest extent in 100 AD. Rashidun Caliphate: 6,400,000 In 655. ... Western remnant of the Umayyad Caliphate ...

9. List of caliphs - Wikipedia

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   The Rashidun caliphate ended with the First Fitna, which transferred authority to the Umayyad dynasty that presided over the Umayyad Caliphate, the largest caliphate and the last one to actively rule the entire Muslim world. [6] The Abbasid Revolution overthrew the Ummayads and instituted the Abbasid dynasty which ruled over the Abbasid ...