The Arab-Byzantine wars were a long series of conflicts between the Arab Muslim caliphates and the Byzantine Empire, lasting for several centuries. They began soon after the rise of Islam, with the Battle of Mu'ta, and within a generation the Arabs had taken Syria, Palestine and Egypt from Byzantium after victories such as the Yarmouk. Constantinople itself withstood major Arab sieges in the seventh and early eighth centuries, which helped to preserve the empire. The frontier then settled along the Taurus Mountains of Anatolia, with raids by both sides, and later Byzantine commanders recovered Crete, Cilicia and northern Syria. The wars shaped the borders and the religious map of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Before and after
- from 627 CE to 629 CEThird Perso-Turkic War
- 628 CEBrahmagupta sets out the rules for zero
- March 628 CETreaty of Hudaybiyyah
- 629 CEConquest of Mecca
- from 629 CE to 1050Arab–Byzantine wars
- from 629 CE to 645 CEXuanzang travels from China to India
- 631 CEOrigins of Islam
- from 632 CE to 633 CERidda Wars
- from June 632 CE to July 661 CERashidun Caliphate
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- 15 June 1215Magna Carta
- from 24 May 1337 to 9 October 1453Hundred Years' War
- 2 January 1492The fall of Granada ends Muslim rule in Spain
The era
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