Medieval era · 692 CE
Siege of Mecca
The siege of Mecca in March–October/November 692 was the final battle of the of the Second Fitna, in which the forces of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan besieged and defeated his rival, the caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in his center of power, the Islamic holy city of Mecca.
- When
- 692 CE
- Where
- Mecca
- Era
- Medieval
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