​who were the abbasid ? what is meant by ​abbasid revolution ? 
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It was an Islamic caliphate.
It was the third of the Islamic caliphates .
It came into power after Islamic prophet Muhammad.
This dynasty descended from  one of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib from here this dynasty got it's name.
The Abassid revolution means an ooverthrown of the Umayyad Caliphate by the third, the Abbasid Caliphate.The umayyad's   ruled between 661–750 CE.The umayyad caliphate was one of the four major Caliphates in the Islamic history,

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