al-Sakuni (undetermined period in 661–680; governed under Mu'awiya I) Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni (680–683; governed under Caliph Yazid I) Nu'man ibn Bashir al-Ansari (684–684; governed under the Mecca-based claimant to the caliphate Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr) Khalid ibn Yazid (684–685; son of Yazid I, governed under his Umayyad kinsman Caliph Marwan I) Aban ibn al-Walid ibn Uqba (684–685; may have served as Khalid's deputy) Aban al-Walid ibn Uqba (685–691; governed under his distant Umayyad kinsman Caliph Abd al-Malik) Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik () Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid (705–715) Yazid ibn Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni (717–720) Abd al-Malik ibn Qa'qa ibn Khulayd al-Absi (undetermined period in 724–743) Marwan ibn Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik and/or Uthman ibn al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik (743–744) Mu'awiya ibn Yazid ibn Husayn al-Sakuni (744–745) Abd Allah ibn Shajara al-Kindi (745) Sa'id ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (745; rebel governor for Sulayman ibn Hisham) Abbasid period Abbasid rule in Syria started from 750 and it started declining after the 861. Abbasid rule in Syria completed ended in the Mid 10th-century. Abd Allah ibn Ali (750–753) Salih ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Abbas (756–757) Ishaq ibn Sulayman ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Abbas (809) Abd Allah ibn Sa'id al-Harashi (809–810) Al-Mu'ayyad (854–855) Salih al-Abbasi al-Turki (855–856) See also Greater Syria Levant Mashriq References Bibliography Syria under the Umayyad Caliphate Homs Subdivisions of the Abbasid Caliphate States and territories established in the 7th century Subdivisions of the Umayyad Caliphate