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Direct control over the Jordan region and …
Years: 532 - 675
Direct control over the Jordan region and much of Syria is transferred in the sixth century to the Ghassanids, Christian Arabs loyal to the eastern, or Byzantine, Empire.
The mission of these warrior-nomads is to defend the desert frontier against the Iranian Sassanian Empire to the east as well as against Arab tribes to the south; in practice, they are seldom able to maintain their claim south of Amman.
Years: 532 - 675
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- Semites
- Arab people
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Syria Prima (Roman province)
- Syria Secunda (Roman province)
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Ghassan, Kingdom of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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