Arabian civilization, for about four centuries under the Ommiad and. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
At about the same time the Ommiad caliphate was broken up into small kingdoms (1031). From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
Arabian authors only once cite Palencia in the division of the provinces previous to the Ommiad dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Abdalrahman, founder of the independent Ommiad (Saracenic) power in Spain, conquered at Tours by Charles Martel. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference
End of the Ommiad and rise of the Abbasside dynasty of caliphs; all the family of the former, except Abderrahman, put to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04] Reference
It has been already related (p. 282), that, after the fall of the Ommiad caliphate, African Mohammedans came over to the help of their Spanish brethren. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
Ommiad dynasty formed the gigantic library at Cordova, and that there were at least seventy others in the colleges that were scattered through the kingdom of Granada. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Book-Collectors] Reference
Spanish Arab chieftains in league against Abdel-Rhaman, the last offshoot of the Ommiad khalifs, who, with the assistance of the Berbers, had seized the government of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference
Carrhae was the residence of Merwan, the last of the Ommiad caliphs, and became the centre of a famous Mussulman school, where, in the tenth century, many Greek works were translated into Arabic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Ibn-al-Arabi was governor of Saragossa, and one of the Spanish-Arab chieftains in league against Abdel-Rhaman, the last offshoot of the Ommiad caliphs, who, with the assistance of the Berbers, had seized the government of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04] Reference
As Hyjauje (the Ommiad caliph) was was one day seated in his hall of audience, surrounded by his nobles and dependents, tremblingly awaiting his commands, for his countenance resembled that of an enraged lion, there suddenly entered, unceremoniously, into the assembly a beardless youth of noble but sickly aspect, arrayed in tattered garments, for misfortune had changed his original situation, and poverty had withered the freshness of his opening youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference
Under such patrons of science and art as the Ommiad caliphs, Abd-er-Rhamman III (d. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
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