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Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
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10th Abassid caliph (r.822–861 CE)
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861–870 crisis in the Abbasid Caliphate
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