What the records say
- When
- 18 Aug 684
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 33.58° N, 36.46° E
- Description
- one of the early battles of the Second Fitna, fought on 18 August 684
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Marj Rahit: Muslim partisans under Marwan I defeat the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, and cement Umayyad control of Syria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “نبرد مرج راهط: پارتیزانهای مسلمان تحت رهبری مروان اول، حامیان عبدالله بن زبیر را در نزدیکی دمشق شکست میدهند و کنترل امویان بر سوریه را تثبیت میکنند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page