- a variation of Omayyad.
Ommiad
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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)
The Abbasids treacherously murdered nearly all the members of the Ommiad family, but one survivor escaped to Spain, where he founded at Cordova an independent Ommiad dynasty.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
They begin with Mawiyeh ibn Ommiyah, founder of the Ommiad dynasty, and end with Mostasem Billah, the last Sultan of the Abbasides.
From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
The Ommiad dynasty at Cordova had disappeared under the assaults of Christians, and of the Moors of Africa.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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