Milestone·Abbasid
Marwan II Killed, Ending Umayyad Rule
- Date
- 6 August 750 CE132 AH1,276 years ago
- Place
- Fayyum, Egypt
- People
- Marwan II, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah
After losing the Battle of the Zab, Caliph Marwan II fled through Syria and Palestine to Egypt. Abbasid forces tracked him down in the Fayyum region and killed him on 6 August 750 CE. The Umayyad dynasty had ruled since 661. One member of the family, Abd al-Rahman, escaped to al-Andalus, where he later founded a new Umayyad emirate.
Why it matters
The Umayyad caliphate ended, and the survivor Abd al-Rahman I later founded a rival Umayyad emirate in al-Andalus.