User:Al Ameer son/Second Fitna map

Geographic setting: As far west as Ifriqiyah (Tunisia), as far east as Khurasan and Sistan, as far south as Yemen and Hadramawt, as far north as the southern shores of the Black Sea.

Year: 686/687

Main actors: Umayyads of Syria, Egypt and Barqa; Zubayrids of the Hejaz, Yemen, Basra, western Jazira (Diyar Mudar), Fars, Kirman, Ahwaz, Khurasan and Sistan; Al-Mukhtar of Kufa, eastern Jazira (Mosul), Arminiya and Adharbayjan; Najdiyya Kharijites of Yamama and Bahrayn;

Domestic movements, major tribes or groups: Azariqa of Ahwaz and Fars; Banu Taghlib and Banu Sulaym of the western Jazira; Mardaites of the Amanus range; Banu Kalb of the Palmyrene steppe and Jund al-Urdunn; Ansar of Medina; Quraysh of Mecca; Azd of Uman;

External actors: Byzantine Empire, Berber confederations (allied with Byzantium) of Ifriqiya; Zunbils of Zabul and Kabul, Khazar Khaganate?

Administrative divisions: Egypt; Bilad al-Sham (Filastin, Urdunn, Dimashq (Balqa, Hawran, Bathaniyya), Hims, Qinnasrin); Jazira (Diyar Mudar, Diyar Rabia, Diyar Bakr); Iraq (Kufa, Basra, Arminiya, Adharbajyan, Fars, Kirman, Ahwaz, Jibal, Khurasan, Sistan); Hejaz; Yemen; Uman; Bahrayn; Yamama

Major cities: Ayla, Maan, Amman, Jerusalem, Gaza, Nabulus?, Tiberias, Acre, Tyre, Sidon, Bayrut, Jabiya, Bosra, Damascus, Baalbek, Homs, Palmyra, Hama, Latakia, Jableh, Tripoli, Antioch, Aleppo, Qinnasrin, Manbij of Syria; Qarqisiya, Ras al-Ayn, Nisibin, Mosul, Ana of the Jazira; Takrit, al-Mada’in, Kufa, Madhar (Maysan), Basra of Iraq; Fustat, Alexandria, Aswan of Egypt; Barqa, Tripoli, Qayrawan, Carthage, Bizerte of Ifriqiya; Tabuk, Wadi al-Qura, Yanbu, Medina, Mecca, Ta’if of Hejaz; Sana’a, Najran of Yemen;

Bodies of water: Mediterranean, Red Sea, Arabian Sea; Persian Gulf; Black Sea; Caspian Sea; Euphrates, Tigris, Zab, Khazir, Khazir, Balikh, Orontes, Jordan rivers.

Major battles: Harra, First Siege of Mecca, Marj Rahit, Ayn al-Warda, Khazir, pre-687; Madhar, Harura, Maskin, Final Siege of Qarqisiya, Maskin, 2nd Siege of Mecca

Geopolitical situation in 685/86

 * West: Arabs lost Ifriqiyah province, probably as far east as the approaches of Cyrenaica to Berbers and Byzantines.
 * North: Arabs territory along the Cilician coast? Still controlled Antioch. Holdings in the interior frontier zone unclear.
 * East: Arabs had not yet broken out of Khurasan, extent of control in Sistan unclear.
 * Umayyads essentially controlled Egypt as far south as Aswan and dependencies (Cyrenaica) and Syria.
 * Zubayrids and pro-Zubayrid forces controlled western Upper Mesopotamia, Basra and its eastern dependencies (Ahwaz, Fars, Kirman) as well as Khurasan and Sistan, the Hejaz (Mecca, Medina, Ta'if, Tabala) and Yemen.
 * Al-Mukhtar controlled Kufa and its northern dependencies (Sawad, Mada'in, Mosul, Adharbayjan, Armenia, Hulwan, the Jibal)
 * Najdat Kharijites controlled Yamama and Bahrayn.
 * Al-Julandi emirs controlled Oman independently.