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The survival of Umayyad spain and North africa The umayyad, don't keep power in the east and the Abbassids take over however they fail to capture Carthage (Tunis), due to the remaining Umayyad family members did not pay amnesty to the abbassid caliphate (in OTL they were massacred), they retreat to Tunis and prepare to prevent further Abbassid expansion into islamic spain and Mauretinia. They won at the battle of gabes in Umayyad Tunisia in 761 where Umayyad caliphate used heavy infantry hired from Christian Spain and managed to stop Abbassid cavalry from out flanking the line of mercenaries while cavalry under the command of Abd al-Rahman I managed to out flank the Abbasid infantry leading to the collapse and slaughter of the Abbasid army preventing the Abbasid Caliphate from mounting any other attack on the Umayyad due to the Alid revolution. However luck turns for the worst for the Umayyad caliphate and the Alhomad (a minor group of nobles who were responsible for much of Umayyad adminstration), rebelled in 1119 and in 1121 captured Tunis and taking lands west of Tunis and eventually capturing Ayyuubid Cyrenica in 1197 in synch with byzantine offensives and in 1201, (but were eventually defeated at the battle of El Salloum halting there eastward expansion) they captured all of Umayyad north african territories butn Tetouan, which remained a Umayyad exclave until 1400 when Umayyad recaptured much of its north african territories with the help of the byzantines (who were playing the Umayyad's against the alhomad). Under the firm support of the Byzantines, the Umayyad caliphate went into a golden age lasting till 1621 when the ottomons sought to expand into their territory

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