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✧ first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 ✧

The first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was a major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the first culmination of the Umayyad Caliphate's expansionist strategy towards the Byzantine Empire. In 672–673 Arab fleets secured bases along the coa...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678)

I'm playing around with the early-#Abbasid-era #Armenian history of Ghevond, and there's a few references to "the sons of Smbat."

The odd thing is that Smbat is usually a Bagratuni name at that period, but the editors conclude that here it must refer to some Mamikoneans, Grigor, Dawit', and Mushegh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagratuni_family_tree#Arabic_Caliphate

There's a difficulty in the text in that p.214 says Grigor and Dawit' were imprisoned in Yemen for the rest of their lives, but p.254 says the "sons of Smbat" were freed by caliph al-Walid II, detained in Syria at hiss death, and then escaped in the chaos of the civil war.

One solution is to read "for the rest of their lives" as a sentence, later abrogated, but it doesn't read that way to me. Alternatively we might emend "their lives" to "his life," and the next caliph freed them.

(The source is now available #OpenAccess online here, the work of Alison Vacca and Sergio La Porta:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/Publications/LAMINE/lamine4.pdf)

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The #CarolingianEmpire is considered the first phase in the history of the #HolyRomanEmpire.

The #BattleofTours was fought 68 years on 10 October #AD732, and was an important battle during the #Umayyad invasion of #Gaul. It resulted in the victory for the #Frankish forces led by Charles Martel over the invading #Muslim forces of the #UmayyadCaliphate, led by Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, governor of #al-Andalus.