Diyar Rabi'a

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district of Upper Mesopotamia historical region

Diyar Rabi'a is a historical district in Upper Mesopotamia, centered around the middle Tigris region and inhabited predominantly by the Rabi'a Arab tribal confederation during the early Islamic period.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Diyar Rabia	1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	district of Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ historical region ⓘ
administrativeRole	military frontier zone of the Caliphate ⓘ
associatedTribe	Banu Shayban NERFINISHED ⓘ Banu Taghlib NERFINISHED ⓘ other Rabi'a sub-tribes ⓘ
borders	Diyar Bakr NERFINISHED ⓘ Diyar Mudar NERFINISHED ⓘ
centeredOn	middle Tigris region NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	Mosul region NERFINISHED ⓘ Nusaybin region NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinjar region NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicallyDominatedBy	Rabi'a Arab tribal confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTopography	mountain foothills ⓘ river plains ⓘ steppe lands ⓘ
historicalPeriod	7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ
historicalRegionOf	northeastern Syria ⓘ northern Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Turkey ⓘ
inhabitedDuring	early Islamic period ⓘ
knownFor	Arab tribal settlement ⓘ strategic location on Tigris ⓘ
languageHistoricallySpoken	Arabic ⓘ Aramaic ⓘ
locatedIn	Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Jazira NERFINISHED ⓘ
mentionedIn	medieval Arabic geographical literature ⓘ
namedAfter	Rabi'a tribal confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Iraq in many medieval geographies ⓘ al-Jazira provinces of the Caliphate ⓘ early Islamic world ⓘ tripartite division of al-Jazira ⓘ
precededBy	Sasanian frontier regions on the Tigris NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousHistory	early Islamic expansion ⓘ
traversedBy	Tigris River NERFINISHED ⓘ
underRuleOf	Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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Al-Jazira region → alsoKnownAs → Diyar Rabi'a ⓘ

Jazira → alsoKnownAs → Diyar Rabi'a ⓘ

this entity surface form: Diyar Rabia