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| | Encyclopedia: Caliph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | After the first four caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, and Ali ibn Abi Talib) the title was claimed by the Umayyads, the Abbasids, and the Ottomans, as well as by other, competing lineages in Spain, Northern Africa, and Egypt. |
 | | Events August 11 - Germanus is translated from the bishopric of Cyzicus to the Patriarch of Constantinople Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik End of the reign of Empress Gemmei of Japan, she is succeeded by Empress Gensho. |
 | | Yazid ibn Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik or Yazid III (701 - 744) (Arabic: ÙØ²Ùد اب٠اÙÙÙÙØ¯ اب٠عبد اÙÙ
ÙÙ) was an Umayyad caliph. |
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