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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Bilad al-Sham (section The jund divisions)
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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Siege of Emesa (section Foundation of Jund Hims)
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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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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