Fatimid Caliphate

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Fatimid Islamic Caliphate

الدولة الفاطمية
ad-Dawlat al-Fāṭimiyya
909–1171
Banner o Fatimid Caliphate
Fatimid green banner.[1]
Location o Fatimid Caliphate
Caipital
Common leidsArabic (offeecial), Berber
Releegion
Ismaili Shia Islam
GovrenmentCaliphate
Caliph 
• 909–934 (first)
al-Mahdi Billah
• 1160–1171 (last)
al-'Āḍid
Historical eraEarly Middle Ages
• Established
Januar 5 909
• Foondation o Cairo
August 8, 969
• Disestablished
1171
Aurie
969[2]4,100,000 km2 (1,600,000 sq mi)
Population
• 
6,200,000
CurrencyDinar
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Abbasid Caliphate
Aghlabid Emirate
Ikhshidid Wilayah
Emirate o Tahert
Ayyubid Sultanate
Outremer
Emirate o Sicily
Zirid Emirate
Hammadid Emirate
The day pairt o

The Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic: الفاطميون‎, al-Fāṭimīyūn) wis a Shia Islamic caliphate, which spanned a muckle aurie o North Africae, frae the Reid Sea in the east tae the Atlantic Ocean in the wast.

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  1. Ibn Hammad (d. 1230) in Akhbar al-Muluk Bani Ubayd (ed. Paris, 1927, p. 57) mentions that Ismail al-Mansur in 948 after his victory over Abu Yazid was met at Kairwan by the notables mounted on fine horse and carrying drums and green flags. While green is often referred to as the dynastic colour of the Fatimids, it appears that the Fatimid caliphate did also use white, in opposition to the black used by the Abbasid caliphate. "The Ismaili Shiʿite counter-caliphate founded by the Fatimids took white as its dynastic color, creating a visual contrast to the ʿAbbasid enemy ... white became the Shiʿite color, in deliberate opposition ot the black of the ʿAbbasid 'establishment'." Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, 2012, p. 97f.
  2. Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires" (PDF). Journal of world-systems research. 12 (2): 219–229. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 22 Februar 2007. Retrieved 9 Januar 2012.