The answer you are looking for the UMAYYAD DYNASTY, but the question is operating backwards. The Umayyad dynasty was founded and the capital subsequently moved to Damascus, not the other way around.
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The Umayyads, specifically the first Umayyad ruler, Mu'awiya I.
The first Islam State Capital was Medina, then Damascus, then Baghdad. Never Mecca was an Islamic state capital although Mecca is the most sacred Islamic city.
The Umayyad Dynasty was founded when the Arab capital was moved.
The answer you are looking for the UMAYYAD DYNASTY, but the question is operating backwards. The Umayyad dynasty was founded and the capital subsequently moved to Damascus, not the other way around.
The answer you are looking for the UMAYYAD DYNASTY, but the question is operating backwards. The Umayyad dynasty was founded and the capital subsequently moved to Damascus, not the other way around.
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Yes. The Umayyads moved the capital of the first Islamic Caliphate from Medina, Saudi Arabia to Damascus, Syria in 661 CE.
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At first it was Baghdad, but later I believe the capital was moved to Damascus.
The Abbasid Dynasty
The Abbasids moved their capital to Baghdad because they wanted to move it closer to Damascus during the time when Umayyad's capital was Damascus. In which means that the Abbasid empire wants to overthrow the Umayyad empire.
More easy to govern. The Umayyads moved their capital from Mecca to Damascus since they had previously been the governors of Syria. The city of Damascus was much more loyal to them than Mecca and a city with which they were intimately familiar.
The Umayyads, specifically the first Umayyad ruler, Mu'awiya I.