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  2. Early Caliphate navy - Wikipedia

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    [25] [26] The Belitung ship is the oldest discovered Arabic ship to reach the Asian sea, dating back over 1,000 years. [27] Meanwhile, French archaeologist Roman Gershman has presented the description of earliest contact of the Arabs to the east even further back to 15,000 BC Arabian invasion on Iran, as Iran were the hub for the Indian ...

  3. Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Expansion of the Islamic state (622–750) For later military territorial expansion of Islamic states, see Spread of Islam. Early Muslim conquests Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632 Expansion under the Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661 Expansion ...

  4. Maritime history - Wikipedia

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    This helped establish the Arab Empire (including the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates) as the world's leading extensive economic power throughout the 8th–13th centuries according to the political scientist John M. Hobson. [45] The Belitung is the oldest discovered Arabic ship to reach the Asian sea, dating back over 1000 ...

  5. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    However, there are no records of open ocean Atlantic sailing, and their activity focused on Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and across to the Bay of Bengal. [31] The origins of the caravel ship, developed and used for long-distance travel by the Portuguese, and later by the rest of Iberians, since the 15th century, also date ...

  6. Timeline of Middle Eastern history - Wikipedia

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    This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

  7. First European Diplomatic Missions to the Persian Gulf

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    Portugal sought to establish control over the sea route to India, necessitating a presence in the Gulf. The Portuguese established a foothold in Hormuz in 1507 and built the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, effectively setting up the first European diplomatic and military presence in the region. [1] [2]

  8. French invasion of Egypt and Syria - Wikipedia

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    The invasion introduced Western inventions, such as the printing press, and ideas, such as liberalism and incipient nationalism, to the Middle East, eventually leading to the establishment of Egyptian independence and modernization under Muhammad Ali Pasha in the first half of the 19th century and eventually the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance.

  9. History of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Haplogroup J-P209, the most common human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup in the Middle East today, is believed to have arisen in the region 31,700 ± 12,800 years ago. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The two main current subgroups, J-M267 and J-M172 , which now comprise between them almost all of the population of the haplogroup, are both believed to have arisen very ...