Bashmurian revolts
| Bashmurian revolts | |||||||
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| Part of the persecution of Copts | |||||||
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Umayyad Caliphate (720, 749) Abbasid Caliphate (767, 831–832) | Egyptian rebels | ||||||
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749: Ḥawthara ibn Suhayl 767: Yazīd ibn Ḥātim 831–832: al-Afshīn | 749: Mina, son of Apacyrus | ||||||
The Bashmurian revolts (Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲧⲱⲟⲩⲛ Ⲙ̀ⲡⲓϣⲁⲙⲏⲣ; Arabic: ثورة البشموريين) were a series of revolts by the Copts in the Bashmur region in the north of the Nile Delta against the Umayyad Caliphate and Abbasid Caliphate in the eighth and ninth centuries. Exactly how many revolts took place cannot be determined, but the major military conflicts took place in 749, 767 and 831–832.
The Bashmurian revolts are known from Coptic and Arabic sources. They did not become known in Europe until the early nineteenth century.