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    Marwān II was the last Umayyad caliph, ruling from 744 to 750 CE. As governor of Armenia for 12 years prior, he gained military experience and reorganized the Islamic army into smaller, more mobile units. However, an Abbasid rebellion in 747 CE led to a decisive defeat for the Umayyads at the Battle of the Great Zab River in 750 CE, ending the Umayyad dynasty. Marwān II was killed while fleeing the forces of Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah, the first Abbasid caliph.

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    Marwān II was the last Umayyad caliph, ruling from 744 to 750 CE. As governor of Armenia for 12 years prior, he gained military experience and reorganized the Islamic army into smaller, more mobile units. However, an Abbasid rebellion in 747 CE led to a decisive defeat for the Umayyads at the Battle of the Great Zab River in 750 CE, ending the Umayyad dynasty. Marwān II was killed while fleeing the forces of Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah, the first Abbasid caliph.

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    Marwān II

    Umayyad caliph
    Marwān II, (born c. 684—died 750, Egypt), last of the Umayyad
    caliphs (reigned 744–750). He was killed while fleeing the forces of
    Abū al-ʿAbbās as-Saffāḥ , the first caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty.

    The grandson of Marwān I, Marwān II was governor of


    Armenia and other territories for 12 years, gaining military
    experience which later led him to reorganize the Islāmic
    army. In place of a clumsy system of divisions based on
    tribal loyalties, Marwān II created smaller, more mobile
    divisions of paid troops under professional commanders.
    Ascending to the throne in 744, he completed the
    reconquest of Syria by 746. However,
    the ʿAbbāsid rebellion broke out in 747, and a combined
    force of ʿAbbāsids, Persians, Iraqis, and Shīʿites decisively
    defeated the Umayyad army at the Battle of the Great Zab
    River in 750. The subsequent death of Marwān II marked
    the end of the Umayyad dynasty.

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