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The extent of the Abbasid empire at its greatest extent has been shaded with green. The whole of the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Iraq, Syria, parts of Asia Minor, Egypt, the North African coast excluding Morocco (Maghreb), Crete and the western half of Sicily were controlled by the Abbasid Empire at its height c. 850 CE.
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