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Abān ibn al-Walīd

7th century Umayyad governor

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Abān ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿUqba ibn Abī Muʿayṭ was a member of the Umayyad family who served as governor of Hims, Qinnasrin and Armenia for the caliphs Marwan I and Abd al-Malik. His brother Uthman may have been his deputy in Armenia, or a governor in his own right, while another deputy of his was Dinar ibn Dinar, who defeated the Byzantines in 694/5.

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