The Rashidun army of fifteen thousand men…
March 637 CE
The Rashidun army of fifteen thousand men under Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas occupies the Persian capital of Ctesiphon after two-month siege.
King Yazdegerd III flees with the imperial treasure eastward into Media.
Muslim forces conquer the Persian provinces as far as Khuzestan.
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Arab people
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Persian people
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Zoroastrians
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Armenian people
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Babylonia, Classical
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Jews
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
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Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
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Christians, Maronite
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Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
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Christians, Monophysite
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Christianity, Chalcedonian
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Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
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Ghassan, Kingdom of
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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
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Islam
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Rashidun Caliphate
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Christians, Monotheletist
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