dabiq was visited by syrian geographer yaqut al-hamawi in the early 13th-century, during ayyubid rule. he noted that it was "a village of the 'azaz district lying 4 leagues from halab (aleppo). near it is a green and pleasant meadow, where the omayyad troops encamped, when they made the celebrated expedition against al massissah, which was to have been continued even to the walls of constantinople. the tomb of caliph sulayman ibn abd al-malik, who led the expedition, lies here."