What the records say
- When
- 683
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 24.47° N, 39.63° E
- Description
- middle ages battle
Battle of al-Harra
Battle between Umayyad and Medinan forces in 683
The Battle of al-Harra was fought between the Umayyad army of the caliph Yazid I led by Muslim ibn Uqba and the defenders of Medina from the Ansar and Muhajirun factions, who had rebelled against the caliph. The battle took place at the lava field of Harrat Waqim in the northeastern outskirts of Medina on 26 August 683 and lasted less than a day.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of al-Harra: The Umayyad Caliphate defeats the rebel defenders of Medina, at a lava field northeast of the city”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “نبرد حره: خلافت اموی، مدافعان شورشی مدینه را در میدانی از گدازه در شمال شرقی شهر شکست داد”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page