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The disastrous failure of the siege of Constantinople in 718 which was accompanied by massive Arab casualties led to a spike of popular animosity among Muslims toward Byzantium and Christians in general.
- 622-750 CE
- Muslim victory
The second Arab siege of Constantinople was a combined land and sea offensive in 717–718 by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.
The eventual fall of the Crusader states by 1291 led to a period of almost-uninterrupted Muslim rule that lasted for seven centuries, and a dominant Islamic culture was consolidated in the region during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman periods.
Jan 23, 2018 · The Byzantine emperor at the time of the attack was Constantine XI (r. 1449-1453 CE), and he took personal charge of the defence along with such notable military figures as Loukas Notaras, the Kantakouzenos brothers, Nikephoros Palaiologos, and the Genoese siege expert Giovanni Giustiniani.
- Mark Cartwright
Mar 27, 2012 · Some very basic questions about the siege are not addressed or addressed only briefly: Why did Mehmed II decide to take Constantinople? How many defenders were there? How large was the Ottoman army, what was its composition, and how was it deployed?
When Jerusalem Wept. The holy city fell first to the Persians and finally to the Muslims. But Christianity in the Holy Land lived on. In 614, the armies of Chosroe II, king of the Sassanids, who...
On the morning of 15 August 717, the residents of Constantinople awoke to nd their resplendent city besieged by 100,000 of the Umayyad Caliphate s nest soldiers. Years in the planning, the siege was the recently emerged Muslim Empire s most ambitious attempt to cap-ture Constantinople and snu out the stubborn
