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January 11, 2021Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 31, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 9th-century Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq, whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 10, 2017, August 10, 2019, and August 10, 2022.
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Start of caliph term

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The article says that he "reigned from 842 until 847 AD" and "He succeeded his father, al-Mutasim, being hailed caliph on the day his father died, December 26, 841." So, did his caliph term start in 841 or 842? Anomalocaris 16:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]