The Umayyad Caliphate, also spelled Omayyad, was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad.
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At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km2 (4,300,000 sq mi) and 62 million people (29% of the world’s population), making it one of the largest empires in history in both area and proportion of the world’s population.
The Umayyad Caliphate was secular by nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate
Strangely enough, the very same Arabian Horizon facilitated the expansion of the Roman Empire which [increasingly] appears to be a re-branding of the Rum Empire [aka Byzantine Empire] by the Western Historical Belief System.
Naming the Byzantine Empire was one of the larger hurdles they had to clear because it’s difficult to explain away why something as significant as the Byzantine Empire was left unlabelled [and undocumented] for over a thousand years.
This is problem the Wikipedia wizards very clumsily try to obfuscate and finesse.
The Ruman Empire.
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At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km2 (4,300,000 sq mi) and 62 million people (29% of the world’s population), making it one of the largest empires in history in both area and proportion of the world’s population.
The Umayyad Caliphate was secular by nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate
Strangely enough, the very same Arabian Horizon facilitated the expansion of the Roman Empire which [increasingly] appears to be a re-branding of the Rum Empire [aka Byzantine Empire] by the Western Historical Belief System.
Naming the Byzantine Empire was one of the larger hurdles they had to clear because it’s difficult to explain away why something as significant as the Byzantine Empire was left unlabelled [and undocumented] for over a thousand years.
This is problem the Wikipedia wizards very clumsily try to obfuscate and finesse.
Rûm, also transliterated as Roum or Rhum…
The name derives from the Greek…. refers to the Byzantine Empire, which… had not yet acquired the designation “Byzantine,” an academic term applied only after its dissolution.
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The Arabs, therefore, naturally called them “the Rûm“, their territory “the land of the Rûm” and the Mediterranean “the Sea of the Rûm.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rûm
http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/732-ad-and-all-that-a-belief-system-cocktail/
The name derives from the Greek…. refers to the Byzantine Empire, which… had not yet acquired the designation “Byzantine,” an academic term applied only after its dissolution.
…
The Arabs, therefore, naturally called them “the Rûm“, their territory “the land of the Rûm” and the Mediterranean “the Sea of the Rûm.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rûm
http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/732-ad-and-all-that-a-belief-system-cocktail/
The Ruman Empire.