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Topic: Byzantine-Muslim War of 645-56

Byzantine-Muslim War of 645-56

Years: 645 - 656

Renewed war with the Caliphate results in the loss of Cyprus and most of Armenia.

The Muslim onslaught towards Constantinople is halted following the outbreak of the First Fitna.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)