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Roman Empire
Rome
The empire of the Mediterranean, which ruled Jerusalem in the time of Isa and later became Christian.
How does it touch Islam?
Isa was born under Roman rule, and Rome destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Who ruled it?
Julius CaesarHerod the GreatAugustusTiberiusPontius PilateTitusHadrianDeciusValerianConstantineTheodosius I
What happened in its time?
Who else is linked?
The Disciples of IsaThe People of the CaveThe city of the SleepersPeople of the Town (Ya-Sin)JerusalemGalilee and TiberiasHawran and BusraBaalbekAntiochHarranEgypt (Misr)AlexandriaPetraPalmyra (Tadmur)RomeCave of the SleepersIstanbul (Constantinople)PalestineMachaerusal-NamaraNicaea (Iznik)
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Empires
- Sumer and Akkad
- Ancient Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Babylonia
- Shang and Zhou China
- Assyria
- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
- Sasanian Persia
- Byzantine Empire
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Empire of Ghana
- Tang China
- Franks and Holy Roman Empire
- State of Madinah
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Umayyads of Cordoba
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ghaznavids
- Seljuk Empire
- Almoravids and Almohads
- Ayyubids
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mongol Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
- Seljuks of Rum and beyliks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming and Qing China
- Safavid Persia
- Mughal Empire
- European colonial empires
- Pahlavi Iran
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Turkey
- Independent Muslim-majority states
- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
- Phoenicia
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Minaeans, Qataban and Hadramawt
- Maurya Empire
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Parthian Empire
- Judea
- Maya civilisation
- Gupta Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Christian Nubia
- Ghassanids
- Japan
- Christian Spain
- Aghlabids
- Idrisids
- Khmer Empire
- Samanids
- Kievan Rus'
- England and Britain
- Buyids
- Song China
- France
- Taifa kingdoms
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
- Zengids
- Portugal
- Ghurids
- Hafsids
- Nasrid Granada
- Golden Horde
- Marinids
- Pasai and Aceh
- Russia
- Ifat and Adal
- Deccan sultanates
- Bengal Sultanate
- Timurids
- Malacca Sultanate
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Kanem-Bornu
- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran
Places
- Makkah
- The Kaaba
- al-Masjid al-Haram
- Zamzam
- Safa and Marwah
- Mina
- Muzdalifah
- Arafat
- Cave of Hira
- Cave of Thawr
- Ta'if
- Wadi Nakhla
- al-Hudaybiyyah
- Hunayn
- Jeddah
- Madinah
- al-Masjid al-Nabawi
- Quba Mosque
- Masjid al-Qiblatayn
- Jannat al-Baqi
- Mount Uhud
- Badr
- Khaybar
- Tabuk
- Mu'tah
- Najran
- Dumat al-Jandal
- Jerusalem
- al-Masjid al-Aqsa
- al-Sham
- Canaan
- Hebron (al-Khalil)
- Sodom and the Dead Sea
- Jericho (Ariha)
- Valley of Elah
- Bethlehem
- Nazareth
- Galilee and Tiberias
- Hawran and Busra
- Baalbek
- Antioch
- Damascus
- Aleppo
- Urfa (Edessa)
- Harran
- Mesopotamia
- Uruk
- Ur
- Akkad
- Babylon (Babil)
- Nineveh
- Mosul
- Ctesiphon (al-Mada'in)
- al-Hirah
- al-Qadisiyyah
- Kufa
- Najaf
- Basra
- Karbala
- Baghdad
- Samarra
- Darb Zubaydah
- Egypt (Misr)
- The Nile (al-Yamm)
- Memphis
- Giza
- Cairo and Fustat
- Alexandria
- Suez
- The Sea Crossing (Red Sea)
- Sinai (the Wilderness)
- Mount Sinai (al-Tur)
- Valley of Tuwa
- Junction of the Two Seas
- Madyan
- Ayla (Aqaba)
- al-Hijr (Hegra)
- Iram of the Pillars
- al-Ahqaf
- Hadramawt
- al-Rass
- Saba and Ma'rib
- Sana'a
- Aden
- Muscat
- Petra
- Palmyra (Tadmur)
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Harar
- Kairouan
- Mahdia
- Tunis
- Tiaret
- Algiers
- Fez
- Marrakesh
- Rabat
- Tangier
- Timbuktu
- Gao
- Tondibi
- Djenne
- Sokoto
- Dakar
- Kilwa
- Zanzibar
- Mogadishu
- Gibraltar (Jabal Tariq)
- Cordoba
- Toledo
- Seville
- Granada
- Las Navas de Tolosa
- Tours and Poitiers
- Aachen
- Palermo
- Larnaca (Cyprus)
- Rome
- Vienna
- Sarajevo
- Lepanto
- Caffa (Crimea)
- Kazan
- Paris
- Wittenberg
- Mount Judi
- Mohenjo-daro
- Anyang
- Bodh Gaya
- Gaugamela
- Cave of the Sleepers
- Mongolia (Karakorum)
- Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Bursa
- Sogut
- Konya
- Ankara
- Manzikert
- Yarmuk
- Hattin
- Acre
- Gaza
- Ain Jalut
- Nahavand
- Hamadan
- Isfahan
- Shiraz
- Tabriz
- Tehran (and Rayy)
- Tus
- Nishapur
- Merv
- Herat
- Bukhara
- Samarkand
- Khwarazm (Urgench)
- Talas
- Tashkent
- Debal
- Multan
- Karachi
- Ghazni
- Kabul
- Lahore
- Delhi
- Agra
- Panipat
- Plassey
- Calicut
- Samudra Pasai
- Malacca
- Aceh
- Xi'an (Chang'an)
- Guangzhou (Canton)
- Quanzhou (Zaytun)
- Nanjing
- Diriyah
- Riyadh
- Dammam
- Arabia
- Palestine
- The Euphrates
- Nubia
- Punjab
- al-Abwa
- Ukaz
- al-Muraysi'
- Bi'r Ma'unah
- al-Yamamah
- Amwas (Emmaus)
- Lod (Ludd)
- Machaerus
- Siffin
- Nahrawan
- al-Namara
- Zafar
- The Valley of the Ants
- Thebes (Luxor)
- Pi-Ramesses (Avaris)
- Persepolis
- Nicaea (Iznik)
- Balkh
- Otrar
- Sarai
- al-Mansurah
- Chaldiran
- Gallipoli
- Khartoum
- Deoband
- Aligarh
- Koumbi Saleh
- Niani
- Kanem (Njimi)
- Mazara
- Mascara
- Gunib
- Palembang
- Jakarta
- al-Zallaqa (Sagrajas)
- Covadonga
- Battle of the Masts
- Valencia
- Srebrenica
- Cox's Bazar
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