. . "Bilad al-Sham (Arabic \u0628\u0644\u0627\u062F \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645, \"land of the North\") was a Rashidun, Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphate province in the region of Syria. It incorporated former Byzantine territories of the Diocese of the East, organized soon after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the mid-7th century, which was completed at the decisive Battle of Yarmouk."@en . . "Bilad al-Sham"@en . "Syria"@en .