Territorial control in the caliphate
c. 686, during the
Second Fitna
Marwan I (
c. 625 – 685) was the fourth
Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684–685. He was the
secretary of his cousin Caliph
Uthman (
r. 644–656). During the
rebel siege of Uthman's house, Marwan was wounded and the caliph was slain. Marwan considered
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah, a companion of the prophet
Muhammad, culpable in the death of Uthman, and killed him in the
Battle of the Camel in 656. Marwan later served as governor of
Medina under his distant kinsman Caliph
Mu'awiya I (
r. 661–680), founder of the Umayyad Caliphate. After the reigns of
Yazid I (
r. 680–683) and
Mu'awiya II (
r. 683–684), the tribal nobility of
Syria, led by
Ibn Bahdal of the
Banu Kalb, elected Marwan caliph. He reasserted Umayyad rule over
Egypt,
Palestine and northern Syria, and dispatched an expedition to reconquer Iraq, but died while it was underway. His son
Abd al-Malik was his designated successor, and the Umayyads continued to rule until 750. (Full article...)
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Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
Portrait of a Man is a 1514 oil-on-lime-wood painting by Hans Baldung, a German artist and printmaker, considered to be the most gifted student of
Albrecht Dürer. The unknown sitter seems to be a wealthy man, as indicated by his fur collar, the heavy gold chains around his neck, and the jewel in his cap. Baldung had a distinctive style, with paintings full of colour, expression and imagination. His talents were varied, and he produced a great and extensive variety of work including portraits, woodcuts, drawings, tapestries, altarpieces, stained-glass, allegories and mythological motifs. The painting is in the collection of the
National Gallery in London.
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