Jund Filastin

Jund Filastin ( _ar. جند فلسطين, "the military district of Palestine") was one of four sub-provinces of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Syria, organized soon after the Arab conquest of the Levant in the 630s. It persisted in some form until the Seljuk invasions and the Crusades of the late 11th century. It contained an area on both sides of the Jordan river, to the south of modern Afula and Irbid, including the cities of Nablus, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, Beit Jibrin, Ramla and Gaza (but excluded the Galilee). Under the Umayyads and Abbasids, its capital was first at Lod, then at Ramla; Jerusalem became administratively important late in the Fatimid period.

ee also

Palestine during the Arab Caliphate period

External links

* [http://www.mideastweb.org/palcaliph1.htm Mideastweb Map of "Palestine Under the Caliphs", showing Jund boundaries]