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Also Known As Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān • Moawiyah I
Born c.602 • Mecca • Saudi Arabia
Died April 680 or May 680 • Damascus • Syria
Title / Office caliph (661-680)
House / Dynasty Umayyad dynasty
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