Battle of the Iron Bridge

When

Oct 637

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.25° N, 36.35° E

Description

637 Muslim Byzantine battle

637 AD battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate

The Battle of the Iron Bridge was fought between the Muslim Rashidun army and the Byzantine army in 637 AD. The battle, which the Muslims won, took its name from a nearby nine-arch stone bridge over the Orontes River, which had gates trimmed with iron blades. It was one of the last battles fought between the Byzantines and Rashidun Caliphate in the province of Syria.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of the Iron Bridge: Rashidun forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid defeat the Byzantine army and Christian Arabs near Antioch, at the Orontes River”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Demirköprü Muharebesi gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Schlacht an der Eisernen Brücke endet mit einem Sieg des muslimischen Kalifats über die Armee des Byzantinischen Reiches”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “نبرد پل آهنین: نیروهای رشیدون به فرماندهی خالد بن ولید، ارتش بیزانس و اعراب مسیحی را در نزدیکی انطاکیه، در کنار رودخانه اورونتس شکست دادند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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