Polity · 656 CE – 756 CE
Umayyad Caliphate
الدَّوْلَةُ الأُمَوِيَّةُ · الدولة الأموية
- Peak recorded area
- 9,877,310 km²
- 732 CE
- Rulers on record
- 14
- from 661 CE
- Data series
- 20
- 670 CE–728 CE
Overview
The Umayyad Caliphate or the Umayyad Empire was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 661 to 750. It succeeded the Rashidun Caliphate, of which the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, was also a member of the Umayyad clan.
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Territory
15 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 756 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Largest Settlement Pop | 300Kpersons700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Polity Population | 7.45score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Population | 28Mpersons700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Sophistication | 1.41score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Monetary Complexity | 0.6667score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Military
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Military Levels2 obs · 683 CE–728 CE | 5levels728 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Battle Count | 1battles718 CE · Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3) |
| Battle Losses | 1battles lost718 CE · Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3) |
| Military Sophistication | 1score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Territory & resources
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Polity Territory | 6.95score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Territory km² | 9Msq km700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Admin Levels | 5.5levels670 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Religious Hierarchy | 2levels670 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Development
6 of 7 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Government Complexity | 0.5111score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Hierarchy Levels | 5.75score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Information Complexity | 0.9923score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Infrastructure | 0.9909score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Largest Settlement Pop | 5.48score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Religious Levels | 2score700 CE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Rulers
14 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Mu'awiya IUmayyad Caliph661 CE – 680 CE
- Yazid IUmayyad Caliph680 CE – 683 CE
- Mu'awiya IIUmayyad Caliph683 CE – 684 CE
- Marwan IUmayyad Caliph684 CE – 685 CE
- Abd al-Malik ibn MarwanUmayyad Caliph685 CE – 705 CE
- Al-Walid IUmayyad Caliph705 CE – 715 CE
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-MalikUmayyad Caliph715 CE – 717 CE
- Umar IIUmayyad Caliph717 CE – 720 CE
- Yazid IIUmayyad Caliph720 CE – 724 CE
- Hisham ibn Abd al-MalikUmayyad Caliph724 CE – 743 CE
- Al-Walid IIUmayyad Caliph743 CE – 744 CE
- Ibrahim ibn al-WalidUmayyad Caliph744 CE
- Marwan IIUmayyad Caliph744 CE – 750 CE
- Yazid IIIUmayyad Caliph744 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Umayyad fals (currency unit), Umayyad dirham (currency unit), Umayyad dinar
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3)v3
Brecke, P. Conflict Catalog (Historical Conflict Events Dataset), digitized v3.
Academic use, attribution
Seshat Equinox 2020Equinox 2020
Turchin, P. et al. Seshat Global History Databank, Equinox 2020 release.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Umayyad Caliphate is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.