Third Fitna

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Islamic civil war civil war historical event

The Third Fitna was a late 8th-century Islamic civil war marked by intense internal conflict and rival claimants to the caliphate that contributed to the weakening and eventual downfall of the Umayyad dynasty.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Third Fitna canonical	11
Third Muslim Civil War	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic civil war ⓘ civil war ⓘ historical event ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Third Fitna ⓘ surface form: Third Muslim Civil War
describedBySource	medieval Arabic chronicles ⓘ modern Islamic historiography ⓘ
endTime	750 ⓘ
followedBy	Abbasid Revolution ⓘ
follows	Second Fitna ⓘ
hasCause	opposition to Umayyad rule ⓘ succession disputes in the Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ tribal rivalries between Qays and Kalb factions ⓘ
hasEffect	downfall of the Umayyad dynasty in the East ⓘ massive casualties and devastation in Syria and Iraq ⓘ political fragmentation of the Caliphate ⓘ rise of the Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ transfer of the caliphal capital from Damascus to Kufa and then Baghdad under the Abbasids ⓘ weakening of central Umayyad authority ⓘ
hasMainParticipants	Abbasid Revolution ⓘ surface form: Abbasid movement Arab tribal factions ⓘ Kharijism ⓘ surface form: Kharijites Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ supporters of Marwan II ⓘ supporters of the Abbasid family ⓘ
location	Armenia ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Jazira ⓘ Khorasan ⓘ Syria ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
mainBelligerent	Abbasid forces ⓘ surface form: Abbasid revolutionary forces Kharijite rebels ⓘ supporters of Marwan II ⓘ
partOf	Umayyad–Abbasid conflict ⓘ
religionInvolved	Islam ⓘ
significantEvent	Abbasid uprising in Khorasan ⓘ Battle of the Zab ⓘ accession of Marwan II ⓘ accession of Yazid III ⓘ brief reign of Ibrahim ibn al-Walid ⓘ capture of Damascus by Abbasid forces ⓘ flight and death of Marwan II ⓘ massacre of Umayyad family members ⓘ overthrow of Caliph al-Walid II ⓘ proclamation of Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah as caliph ⓘ
startTime	744 ⓘ
timePeriod	8th century ⓘ

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- Do not get too wordy.
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Input

Subject: Third Fitna
Description of subject: The Third Fitna was a late 8th-century Islamic civil war marked by intense internal conflict and rival claimants to the caliphate that contributed to the weakening and eventual downfall of the Umayyad dynasty.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Umayyad Caliphate → notableEvent → Third Fitna ⓘ

Second Fitna → followedBy → Third Fitna ⓘ

Marwan II → conflict → Third Fitna ⓘ

Third Fitna → alsoKnownAs → Third Fitna ⓘ

this entity surface form: Third Muslim Civil War

House of Marwan → significantEvent → Third Fitna ⓘ

Abbasid Revolution → precededBy → Third Fitna ⓘ

Yazid III → politicalContext → Third Fitna ⓘ

Islamic civil wars → hasComponentConflict → Third Fitna ⓘ

Fourth Fitna → hasPrecedingEvent → Third Fitna ⓘ

Fourth Fitna → follows → Third Fitna ⓘ

Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan → conflict → Third Fitna ⓘ

Marwan al-Himar → conflict → Third Fitna ⓘ