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The eastern Caucasus became the main theatre of the Arab–Khazar conflict, with the Arab armies aiming to gain control of Derbent (Arabic Bab al-Abwab, 'Gate of Gates') and the Khazar cities of Balanjar and Samandar. Their locations have yet to be established with certainty by modern researchers, but both cities are referred to as Khazar ...
The Khazars launched raids in response into Albania and Iranian Azerbaijan but were driven back by the Arabs under Hasan ibn al-Nu'man. [107] The conflict escalated in 722 with an invasion by 30,000 Khazars into Armenia inflicting a crushing defeat.
The eastern Caucasus became the main theatre of the Arab–Khazar conflict: perhaps fittingly, the Arabs rather came out of nowhere here: a sentence ago, it was 632 and the Sassanids appeared to be doing perfectly well. We need to briefly fill in the gaps and explain how it came to be Arabs, not Persians, on the southern side of the mountains.
Arab- Turgesh wars Day of Thirst in 724; Battle of the Defile in 731; Arab–Khazar wars; Abbasid Caliphate conflicts Abbasid revolt Battle of the Zab 750; Arab–Byzantine wars 780–1180 Battle of Krasos 804/5; Battle of Anzen 838; Sack of Amorium 838; Sack of Damietta (853) Battle of Lalakaon 863; John Kourkouas' campaigns
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The Battle of Balanjar took place during the First Khazar-Arab War between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Caliphate, whose commanding general was Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah. [ 1 ] According to the Arab chroniclers, the Arabs captured Derbent in 642, when Abd al-Rahman ibn Rabiah secured the surrender of the Persian governor of Derbent ...
Russia entered the conflict in 2015 to shore up Assad's struggling regime. Russia's leader Vladimir Putin wanted to assert his country's power on the world stage and act as a counterweight to the ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.