Jabiyah (Arabic: الجابية / ALA-LC: al-Jābiya) was a town of political and military significance in the 6th–8th centuries. It was located between the Hawran plain and the Golan Heights. It initially served as the capital of the Ghassanids, an Arab vassal kingdom of the Byzantine Empire. Following the Muslim conquest of Syria, it early on became the Muslims' main military camp in the region and, for a time, the capital of Jund Dimashq (military district of Damascus). Caliph Umar convened a meeting of senior Muslim figures at the city where the organization of Syria and military pay were decided. Later, in 684, Jabiyah was the site of a summit of Arab tribes that chose Marwan I to succeed Caliph Mu'awiya II. Jabiyah was often used by the Umayyad caliphs as a retreat. Its significance declined when Caliph Sulayman made Dabiq the Muslims' main military camp in Syria.
Jabiyah (Arabic: الجابية / ALA-LC: al-Jābiya) was a town of political and military significance in the 6th–8th centuries. It was located between the Hawran...
phylarchs, native rulers of client frontier states. The capital was at Jabiyah in the Golan Heights. Geographically, it occupied much of the eastern Levant...
Abu Ubaidah ordered the concentration of troops in the vast plain near Jabiyah, as control of the area made cavalry charges possible and facilitated the...
encompassed southern Syria and the Transjordan, building their capital at Jabiyah.[citation needed] Like the Herodians before them, the Ghassanids ruled...
Mosque Umayyad Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais...
Hellenised city thus fell into a precipitous decline. At the council of al-Jabiyah, when the administration of the new territory of the Umar Caliphate was...
phylarchs, native rulers of subject frontier states. Their capital was at Jabiyah in the Golan Heights. Geographically, the Ghassanid kingdom occupied much...
al-Saghir (also called "Goristan-e-Ghariban"), dedicated to Jupiter. Bab al-Jabiyah (Gate of the Water Trough), dedicated to Mars. Bab al-Faradis (The Gate...
Gadara (see Onomasticon) and Capitolias Abila, Beit Ras, Ard el-Karm, Jordan Gabe Region of Gabe, later also known as Jabiyah Muzeirib / Nawa, Syria...
northwest corner of the city walls, between the Bab al-Faradis and the Bab al-Jabiyah. The citadel consists of a more or less rectangular curtain wall enclosing...
still connects the eastern gate of the city to the western gate, or Bab al-Jabiyah. Damascus was conquered by Muslims during the Rashidun era. Following the...
Mosque Umayyad Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais...
phylarchs, native rulers of subject frontier states. The capital was at Jabiyah in the Golan Heights. Geographically, it occupied much of Syria, Palestine...
Mosque Umayyad Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais...
monastery, and the second took place at the Church of Saint Sergius at Jabiyah. Both meetings were tumultuous as Damian's entourage created commotion...
Mosque Umayyad Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam Bab Kisan Bab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais...
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