Note 601 — Chapter L · THE OMEYYAD AND ABBASSIDE DYNASTIES, AND CONCLUSION.
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In this reign the Moslem arms, conducted by the famous Mûsa, reached to the Atlantic. The Moslem fleets were now powerful, and made a descent on Sicily, A.H. 82.
Kûfa and Bussorah continued to give such constant annoyance, that Wâsit (or the ‘Midway garrison’) was founded half-way between the two cities, to keep them in check. Moslem mints were now first established, the coinage having a verse of the Corân for the legend. See Weil’s Caliphs, vol. i. p. 470.