Jund Filastin

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jund Filastin (Arabic: جند فلسطين, the military district of Palestine) was one of several sub-provinces of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Syria, organized soon after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the seventh century. According to al-Biladhuri, the main towns in the district at its capture by the Rashidun Caliphate, were Gaza, Sebastiya, Nablus, Caesarea, Ludd, Yibna, Imwas, Jaffa, Rafah, and Bayt Jibrin. At first under the early Umayyad caliphs, Ludd was the capital, but after Suleiman ibn Abd al-Malik founded the nearby city Ramla, he made it the capital, and most of Ludd's inhabitants were forced to settle there. In the 9th century, Jund Filastin was the most fertile of Syria's districts, and contained at least twenty mosques, despite its small size.