⚔️ Ottoman & Islamic Empireshard
Battle of the Zab
750 CE · Iraq
Quick Facts
- Year
- 750 CE
- Location
- Iraq
- Era
- ⚔️ Ottoman & Islamic Empires
- Difficulty
- hard
The Abbasid revolutionary army, marching under black banners, defeated the Umayyad Caliphate's forces under Caliph Marwan II at the Great Zab River in northern Iraq. The Umayyad army collapsed and Marwan fled, only to be hunted down and killed in Egypt. The Abbasids systematically exterminated the Umayyad dynasty and established a new caliphate centered on Baghdad, ushering in the Islamic Golden Age of learning and culture.
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The Abbasid revolution used black as their color in contrast to the Umayyad white. The black banners of the Abbasids became so iconic that some Islamic prophecies reference 'armies with black banners from the east.'