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    Jund Ḥimṣ (Arabic: جند حمص, "military district of Homs") was one of the military districts of the caliphal province of Syria. The capital of Jund Hims...
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    district of Jund Hims. It was separated from Hims during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I or Yazid I and came under the jurisdiction of Jund Qinnasrin....
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    organized into the four ajnad (military districts; singular jund) of Dimashq (Damascus), Hims (Homs), al-Urdunn (Jordan), and Filastin (Palestine), between...
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  • dividing the region into four ajnad: Hims (Jund Hims), Damascus (Jund Dimashq), Jordan (Jund al-Urdunn), and Palestine (Jund Filastin). The Umayyad Caliph Yazid...
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    Balis, and Suwaydiyya. Originally a part of Jund Hims, the first Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I established the Jund Qinnasrin when he defeated Hasan ibn Ali...
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    Jund Hims became the northernmost district. It initially encompassed the territory of Jund Hims proper, the territory of the future district of Jund Qinnasrin...
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    Alqama; he was already governor of the junds of Dimashq and al-Urdunn under Umar was given authority over Jund Hims by Uthman) Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Azdi...
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    Homs (redirect from Ḩimş)
    the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya hived the northern half of Jund Hims to form a separate district, Jund Qinnasrin, apparently as punishment. Ali's oratory (mashhad...
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  • Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni (category Umayyad governors of Hims)
    678 and 681/682. Under Yazid I (r.  680–683) he became governor of the Jund Hims (military district of Homs), and in this capacity served in the expedition...
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    al-Houla in 1226 during Ayyubid rule noting that the place belonged to Jund Hims ("military district of Homs"). The Houla massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الحولة)...
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