Battle of the Zab

Battle of the Zab
	Part of the Abbasid Revolution
	; Greater Zab River Map in Iraq
Date	January 25, 750
Location	near the Great Zab
Result	Abbasid victory Collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate; Establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate;
Belligerents
Abbasid Caliphate	Umayyad Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Abu Muslim; Saffah; Abd Allah ibn Ali; Abu Awn	Marwan II (WIA)
Strength
around 20.000	around 120,000

The Battle of the Zab (Arabic: معركة الزاب), also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the Great Zāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on the banks of the Great Zab River in what is now the modern country of Iraq. It spelled the end of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasids, a dynasty that would last from 750 to 1517.

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