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 661–80] indigenous population. The Christians of Syria were at least as well off under Muʿāwiya as they had been under Heraclius. One of his chief advisers was a Christian: he rebuilt the church of Edessa, which had been destroyed by an earthquake; and Jacobites and Maronites brought their disputes to him to be settled.