Siège

Siege of Constantinople

674 – 678 · 41.01° N, 28.98° E

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674 – 678
Type
Siège
Coordonnées
41.01° N, 28.98° E
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674–678 siege of the Arab–Byzantine Wars

Siege of Constantinople (674–678)

Major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars

Constantinople was besieged by the Arabs in 674–678, in what was the first culmination of the Umayyad Caliphate's expansionist strategy against the Byzantine Empire. Caliph Mu'awiya I, who had emerged in 661 as the ruler of the Muslim Arab empire following a civil war, renewed aggressive warfare against Byzantium after a lapse of some years and hoped to deliver a lethal blow by capturing the Byzantine capital of Cons…

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