Jund Falastin

Jund Filastin
Province of the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates
← 660s/680s–late 11th century →   →
Arab Syria (Bilad al-Sham) and its provinces under the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century
Capital		Ludd, Ramla, Jerusalem
History
•	Established	660s/680s
•	Seljuk attacks, First Crusade	late 11th century
Today part of		Israel  Palestinian Authority  Jordan

Jund Filastin (Arabic: جند فلسطين‎‎, "military district of Palestine") was one of the military districts of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Bilad al-Sham (Syria), organized soon after the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s.

Jund Filastin, which encompassed most of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Tertia, included the newly established city of Ramla as its capital and eleven administrative districts (kura), each ruled from a central town.

According to al-Biladhuri, the main towns of the district, following its conquest by the Rashidun Caliphate, were Gaza, Sebastia, Nablus, Caesarea, Ludd, Yibna, Imwas, Jaffa, Rafah, and Bayt Jibrin. At first, under the early Umayyad caliphs, Ludd served as the district capital. After the caliph Suleiman ibn Abd al-Malik founded the nearby city of Ramla, he designated it the capital, and most of Ludd's inhabitants were forced to settle there. In the 9th century, during Abbasid rule, Jund Filastin was the most fertile of Syria's districts, and contained at least twenty mosques, despite its small size.

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