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 . Sufyân ibn-Muḥammad from his father and sheikhs:—ʿUbâdah with the Moslems conquered Anṭarṭûs [Tortosa] which was a fortified town and which was evacuated by its holders. Muʿâwiyah built Anṭarṭûs and fortified it giving the fiefs to the holders of the fort. The same thing he did with Maraḳîyah and Bulunyâs.

. Abu-Ḥafṣ ad-Dimashḳi from his sheikhs:—Abu-ʿUbaidah effected the conquest of al-Lâdhiḳîyah, Jabalah and Anṭarṭûs through ʿUbâdah ibn-aṣ-Ṣâmit and used to put them in charge of a guard until the time in which the sea was closed. When Muʿâwiyah stationed garrisons in the coast cities and fortified them, he put garrisons in, and fortified these cities, too, and treated them as the other littoral towns.

. It was reported to me by a sheikh from Ḥimṣ that close to Salamyah [Salaminias] lay a city called Muʾtakifah which one day was completely destroyed by an earthquake and only one hundred of its inhabitants survived. The survivors erected one hundred houses and lived in them. This new settlement was called Silm Miʾah which name was corrupted into Salamyah. Later there came to this place Ṣâliḥ ibn-ʿAli ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿAbbâs, fortified it and lived in it with his sons. Many of his descendants still have their abode in it. According to ibn-Sahm al-Anṭâki, however, Salamyah is an ancient Greek name.

. I was told by Muḥammad ibn-Muṣaffa-l-Ḥimṣi that the wall of Ḥimṣ was destroyed by Marwân ibn-Muḥammad, because in his retreat before the people of Khurâsân, he passed by the