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    Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّام, romanized: Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was...
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    Syria (region) (redirect from Al-Sham)
    superseded by the Arabic equivalent Shām, and under the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates, Bilad al-Sham was the name of a metropolitan province...
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    al-Sham https://t.co/gbsbkI66gw" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 December 2020 – via Twitter. "New statement from Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī in Bilād al-Shām:...
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    Jund al-Urdunn (Arabic: جُـنْـد الْأُرْدُنّ, translation: "The military district of Jordan") was one of the five districts of Bilad al-Sham (Islamic Syria)...
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    sub-district in Bilad al-Sham during the 7th–11th centuries CE. It roughly corresponds to the biblical Mount Seir. In modern-day Jordan, the region of Al-Sharat...
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    which the Romans considered Arabian, formed part of what they called Bilad al-Sham, which was their own name for Syria. From the classical perspective...
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  • Jama'at Ansar al-Furqan in Bilad al Sham (Arabic: جماعة أنصار الفرقان في بلاد الشام; lit. "Supporters of the Criterion in the Levant") is an armed jihadist...
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    which the Romans considered Arabian, formed part of what they called Bilad al-Sham, which was their own name for Syria. From the classical perspective...
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    Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (Arabic: حركة أحرار الشام الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat Aḥrār aš-Šām al-Islāmiyah, lit. 'Islamic Movement of the Freemen...
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    Sultanate of Egypt and the Bilad al-Sham married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. According to al-Sakhawi, as many as three out...
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