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Bilad al-Sham
Bilad al-Sham
(
Arabic
بلاد الشام, "the country of Syria") was a
Rashidun
,
Umayyad
and later
Abbasid Caliphate
province in the
region of Syria
. It incorporated former
Byzantine
territories of the
Diocese of the East
, organized soon after the
Muslim conquest of Syria
in the mid-7th century, which was completed at the decisive
Battle of Yarmouk
.
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