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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 ...
English: Political map of the Caucasus, c. 740 CE, following the end of the Arab-Khazar conflict and the consolidation of Umayyad power in Transcaucasia. Sources: Inspired by File:Kaukasus 750n de.svg, as an attempt to improve it and correct some errors and omissions. Background map taken from File:Caucasus_topographic_map-fr.svg.
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The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates and their respective vassals think it might be nice to establish early on that this was a succession of states, rather than the Khazars fighting all three. Perhaps The Arab–Khazar wars were a ...
The Hayasa-Azzi confederation was in conflict with the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BC, leading up to the collapse of Hatti around 1190 BC Arme-Shupria was a kingdom, known from Assyrian sources beginning in the 13th century BC, located in what is now known as the Armenian Highlands , to the southwest of Lake Van , bordering on Ararat proper.
The Umayyad Caliphate was shaken by the deaths of Caliph Yazid I and his successor Mu'awiya II in 683 and 684, respectively, amid the Second Muslim Civil War. [1] In the aftermath, they lost authority over Iraq (the part of Mesopotamia south of Tikrit [2]) while the governors of northern Syria and Palestine switched their allegiance to Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the anti-Umayyad claimant to the ...
Our names and nationalities, faces and faith brand us with the stain of collective guilt for crimes that we did not commit, writes Khaled A. Beydoun on the Arab and Muslim communities in the US.
629–11th century Arab–Byzantine wars; 650s–737 Arab–Khazar wars; 680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars; 718–1492 Iberian Reconquista; 830s–1043 Rus'–Byzantine wars; 1048–1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars; 1090–1194 Nizari–Seljuk conflicts; 1095–1291 Crusades; 1299–1453 Byzantine–Ottoman wars; 1676–1918 Russo-Turkish wars