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809| 24 March 809 | Middle East [births and deaths] | Harun ar-Rashid, 5th caliph of the Abbasid dynasty 786–809, who made Baghdad wealthy and whose court was immortalized in Alf Laylah wa-Laylah/A Thousand and One Nights – The Arabian Nights, dies in Tus, Persia (43). | | 24 March 809 | Arab Caliphate [political events] | When the Abbasid caliph Harun ar-Rashid falls ill and dies after suppressing a revolt in Samarkand, his Muslim Arab empire is divided between his sons, al-Ma'mun and al-Amin. |
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