The Ghassanids were an Arab kingdom, mostly Christian, who lived in the Syrian steppe and Transjordan and served as allies and clients of the Byzantine Empire. They guarded the desert frontier against raids by nomads and against the Lakhmids, who were Arab allies of Sasanian Persia, and they fought in the wars between the two empires. The Ghassanid rulers followed the Miaphysite form of Christianity, which sometimes put them at odds with Constantinople, and they were patrons of churches and monasteries and of poets. Their power was strongest under al-Harith ibn Jabala in the sixth century. The Byzantines later withdrew support, and the kingdom collapsed after the Muslim conquest of Syria.
Before and after
- 203 CEOrigins of Arch of Septimius Severus (Roman Forum)
- 212 CEConstitutio Antoniniana
- 216 CEConstruction of Baths of Caracalla
- from 220 CE to 280 CEThree Kingdoms
- from 220 CE to 638 CEGhassanids
- from 220 CE to 589 CEWei, Jin, Southern and Northern dynasties
- from 224 CE to 651 CESasanian Empire
- from 229 CE to 233 CEFirst Mesopotamian campaign of Ardashir I
- c. 233 CEEruption of Taupo
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