Jund Filastin

Province of the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates

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660s/680s–late 11th century

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Arab Syria (Bilad al-Sham) and its provinces under the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century

Capital

Ludd, Ramla, Jerusalem

History

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Established

660s/680s

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Seljuk attacks, First Crusade

late 11th century

Today part of

Israel

State of Palestine

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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