Marwan flees at last to Abusir/Busir, which …
Years: 750 - 750
Marwan flees at last to Abusir/Busir, which is a small town on the Egyptian Nile delta.
It is here on August 6, 750, a few months after the Battle of the Zab, that he is at last killed in a short battle and replaced as caliph by Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah, bringing to an end Umayyad rule in the Middle East.
Locations
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Islam
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Kharijite
- Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Syrian people
- Abbasid Caliphate (Kufa)
