Paytakaran
City · c. 638 CE · in Europe
Capital of Balasagan (638–646).
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- Sari (c. 644 CE): Capital of Dabuyid Dynasty (644–756).
- Fuman (c. 644 CE): Capital of Dabuyid Dynasty (644–756).
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- Lhasa (c. 623 CE): Capital of Tibetan Empire (623–842), Khoshut Khanate (1650–1695).
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- Kufa (c. 656 CE): Capital of Rashidun Caliphate (656–661).
- Lamphun (c. 661 CE): Capital of Haripuñjaya (661–1292).
- Maria Saal (c. 661 CE): Capital of Carantania (661–749).
- Isca Dumnoniorum (c. 602 CE): Capital of Dumnonia (602–709).
- Karnasuvarna (c. 602–611 CE): Capital of Gauda Kingdom (602–611).
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- 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.
- Battle of the Yarmuk (636 CE): Arab Muslim armies decisively defeated the Byzantine army near the Yarmuk River, opening the Levant to the Muslim conquest.
- Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE): Mu'awiya I founded the Umayyad Caliphate with its capital at Damascus; it extended Muslim rule from Iberia to Central Asia.
- Battle of Karbala (680 CE): Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad, and his small party were killed by Umayyad forces at Karbala, an event central to Shia Islam and commemorated on Ashura.
- Ctesiphon (c. 239 BCE – c. 637 CE): Capital of Parthian Empire (239 BCE–224).
- Palmyra (c. 261–1929 CE): Capital of Palmyrene Empire (261–269).
- Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (c. 636 CE): Arab Muslim forces defeated the Sasanian army near al-Qadisiyyah in Iraq, opening Mesopotamia and the capital Ctesiphon to conquest.
- Muslim conquest of Transoxiana (673–751 CE): Arab campaigns that brought Bukhara, Samarkand and the lands beyond the Oxus under Umayyad and then Abbasid rule.
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