marches, comprising a chain of fortified strongholds, known as al-thughūr (اَلـثُّـغُـوْر; sing. al-thaghr, اَلـثَّـغْـر, "cleft, opening"), and the rear or...

Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786, the jund of al-Awasim and al-Thughur were established from the northern frontier region of Qinnasrin by Caliph Harun al-Rashid...

of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (al-thughur al-Shamiya). Bushra was a retainer (ghulam) of the long-time governor of...

later Medinaceli. The concept of al-thughūr (الثغر), the frontier zones or marches between the dār al-ḥarb and the dār al-islām, was found throughout the...

of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (al-thughur al-Shamiya). A former Dulafid slave, he commanded several successful raiding...

command over the frontier provinces with the Byzantine Empire (the al-Thughur wa al-'Awasim), with his seat at Manbij. In this capacity, in July-August...

glorious victories, the most important of which were the Levantine border (al-Thughur al-Shamia) wars against the Byzantines, the sack of Byzantine Thessaloncia...

with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (al-thughur al-Shamiya). As his nisba shows, he was a former ghulam of Thamal al-Dulafi, who was the governor of Tarsus...

Malik al-Khuza'i (Arabic: ثابت بن نصر الخزاعي) (died 813/14) was an Abbasid general and governor of the Cilician frontier zone (al-thughur al-Sha'miya)...

support of al-Mu'tamid, in 877/8 Ibn Tulun managed to be assigned responsibility for the entirety of Syria and the Cilician frontier zone (Thughur) with the...