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Ommiad

British  
/ əʊˈmaɪæd /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Omayyad

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Under the Ommiad Caliphs, Syria, so long a pawn, became the heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ommiad dynasty, founded by Mawiyeh, reigned at Damascus eighty-five years, and was then succeeded on a new appeal to the sword in a.d.

From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

Ibn-al-Arabi was governor of Saragossa, and one of the Spanish-Arab chieftains in league against Abdel-Rhaman, the last offshoot of the Ommiad caliphs, who, with the assistance of the Berbers, had seized the government of Spain.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

End of the Ommiad caliphate of Cordova; Spain divided by the Moorish chiefs into many states.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Arabian civilization, for about four centuries under the Ommiad and Abbasid caliphs, far surpassed anything to be found in western Europe.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton