Image: Iraq Ninth Century

Description: Map of Iraq and surrounding regions in the mid-ninth century AD. Derived principally from Le Strange, pp. 24 ff. & Map II; and al-Tabari, volumes 30-37, passim. Works cited: Le Strange, Guy. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905. Al-Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir. The History of al-Tabari. Ed. Ehsan Yar-Shater. 40 vols. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1985-2007. Background topography comes from the following file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topographic30deg_N30E30.png. This map was created for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphal_Civil_War_(865-866).
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