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The Hamdanid dynasty was founded by ''Hamdan ibn Hamdun'' (after whom it is named), when he was appointed governor of Mardin in SE Anatolia by the Abbasid Caliphs in 890 . His son ''Abdallah'' ( 904 - 929 ) was in turn appointed governor of Mosul in northern Iraq ( 906 ) and even governed Baghdad ( 914 ). His sons were installed as governors in Mosul and Aleppo . The rule of ''Hassan'' Nasir Ad-Daula ( 929 - 968 ), governor of Mosul and Diyarbakir , was sufficiently tyrannical to cause him to be deposed by his own family. His lineage still ruled in Mossul, a heavy defeat by the Buyids in 979 notwithstanding, until 990 . After this, their area of control in northern Iraq was divided between the Uqailid s and the Marwanid s. ''Ali'' Saif Ad-Daula 'Sword of the State' ruled ( 945 - 967 ) Northern Syria from Aleppo , and became the most important opponent of the Byzantine Empire 's (Christian) expansion. His court was a centre of culture, thanks to its nurturing of Arabic literature, but it lost this status after the Byzantine conquest of Aleppo. To stop the Byzantine advance, (his son?) ''Said ad-Daula'' converted to Shiism in 969 and put Aleppo under the suzerainty of the Fatimids in Egypt , but in 1003 the Fatimids deposed the Hamdanids anyway. |
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