Siege of Constantinople

When

15 Aug 717 – 15 Aug 718

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

41.01° N, 28.98° E

Description

717-718 combined land and sea offensive by the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople

717–718 siege of the Byzantine capital

In 717–718, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was besieged by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate. The campaign marked the culmination of twenty years of attacks and progressive Arab occupation of the Byzantine borderlands, while Byzantine strength was sapped by prolonged internal turmoil.

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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 “Siege of Constantinople: Maslama begins a combined land and sea effort to capture Constantinople”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Konstantinopolis'in İkinci Arap Kuşatması başladı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Während der Islamischen Expansion beginnt die Belagerung Konstantinopels durch das arabische Heer unter Feldherr Maslama”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “une armée musulmane de et une flotte de 1800 navires, dirigée par Maslama, assiège Constantinople”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Осада арабами Константинополя”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “بدء حصار القسطنطينية والذي استمر إلى 15 أغسطس 718.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “محاصره قسطنطنیه: مسلمه تلاش مشترک زمینی و دریایی را برای تصرف قسطنطنیه آغاز می‌کند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page