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Bosra

town in Daraa, Syria

6 dated entries naming Bosra, drawn from 6 separate years between 71 CE and 1187 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Bostra in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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1st century

  • 71Reign of Rabel II, king of Nabataea. He makes Bostra, Syria, his second capital.source

3rd century

  • 246The first of two Councils of Arabia in the Roman Christian Church is held in Bostra, Arabia Petraea.source
  • 247The last of the two Councils of Arabia in the Roman Christian Church is held in Bostra, Arabia Petraea.source

7th century

  • 634Battle of Bosra: Muslim forces under Khalid besiege the Byzantine and Christian Arab garrison (12,000 men) at Bosra. After a few days the fortress city surrenders; Khalid imposes a payment of tribute on the inhabitants.source

12th century

  • 1182December – Baldwin IV raids through the Hauran and reaches Bosra, while Raymond III of Tripoli recaptures Habis Jaldak. A few days later, Baldwin sets out with a Crusader force to Damascus and encamps at Dareiya in the suburbs. He decides not to attack the city and retires laden with booty, to spend Christmas at Tyre.source
  • 1187March 13 – Saladin leaves Damascus with his Muslim forces, and sends letters to neighboring countries, asking for volunteers for a forthcoming jihad ("Holy War"). A week later his younger brother Al-Adil, governor of Egypt, leads his forces out of Cairo towards Syria. Meanwhile, Saladin leaves an army under his 18-year-old son Al-Afdal at Busra, to keep watch on the 'Pilgrim road'.source

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