Jabiyah

City · c. 510–633 CE · in the Middle East

Capital of Ghassanids (510–633).

Barcelona (c. 507 CE): Capital of Visigothic Kingdom (507–542), Catalonia (1640–1641), Second Spanish Republic (1932–1938).
Pavia (c. 500 CE): Capital of Ostrogothic Kingdom (500–553).
Chufut-Kale (500–1490 CE): Capital of Crimean Khanate (1450–1490).
Old Dongola (c. 500–1518 CE): Capital of Makuria (500–1414), Makuria Kingdom (1415–1518).
Carisbrooke (c. 523 CE): Capital of Wihtgar (523–686).
Canterbury (c. 490 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Kent (490–762).
Winchester (c. 534 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Wessex (534–927), Kingdom of England (936–1100).
Lincoln (c. 534 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Lindsey (534–625).
Tamworth (c. 534 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Mercia (534–918).
Kyiv (482 CE): Capital of Kievan Rus' (882–1240), Principality of Kiev (1056–1240), Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1919).

Around the same time and place

Muhammad (c. 570 CE – 632 CE): The prophet of Islam, born in Mecca, who united much of Arabia under the new faith before his death in Medina.
First revelation of the Quran (c. 610 CE): According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad received his first revelation in the cave of Hira near Mecca in 610, beginning the Quran and the religion of Islam.
The Hijra (622 CE): Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina, where he established the first Muslim community; the year marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
Uruk (c. 5,000 BCE – c. 700 CE): Sumerian city on the Euphrates that by about 3100 BCE was probably the largest city in the world, centre of the first urban civilization.
Justinian I (482 CE – 565 CE): Byzantine emperor who reconquered Italy and North Africa, codified Roman law and built the Hagia Sophia.
Arabic script (512 CE): Arabic writing grew out of the Nabataean alphabet; the Zabad inscription of 512 is among its earliest dated examples, and with the Quran the script spread from Spain to Indonesia.
Hagia Sophia (537 CE): Great church of Constantinople built under Justinian I, whose vast dome made it the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years.
Plague of Justinian (541–549 CE): First recorded outbreak of bubonic plague in the Mediterranean world; it struck Constantinople in 542 and killed a large share of the population.