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...

Radivoj (2008). "Two Arabian sieges of Constantinople (674–678; 717/718)". Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Constantinople. Foundation of the Hellenic...

following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople was built on the...

"L'Expedition de Maslama contre Constantinople (717–718)". Études byzantines (in French). Paris: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Paris:...

their conquests. However, further sieges followed the Arab conquests, first from 674 to 678 and then in 717 to 718. The Theodosian Walls kept the city...

impenetrability of Constantinople's walls, and their own exhausted provisions, the Arabs were forced to abandon the siege in August 718. Sulayman had died...

de Maslama contre Constantinople (717–718)" [Maslama's Expedition to Constantinople (717–718)]. Études byzantines (in French). Paris: Publications de...

that a mosque was built on this site during the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople in 717–18 by the Umayyad prince and general Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik...

after 1071 to the Seljuk Turks. Following the failure to capture Constantinople in 717–718, the Umayyads for a time diverted their attention elsewhere, allowing...

culminating in the 717–718 siege of Constantinople, which ended in a disastrous Arab defeat. Sulayman died in Dabiq during the siege. His eldest son and...

directed the massive war effort to conquer the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 717. According to the traditional Muslim sources, when Sulayman was...

since its failure to capture the Byzantine Empire's capital, Constantinople, in 717–718, the Caliphate had launched a series of raids into Byzantine Asia...

of Emperor Shenzong of Song. Leo III the Isaurian (717–741 AD) turned back the Muslim assault in 718, and achieved victory with the major help of the Bulgarian...

Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars Siege of Turanda (712) – Arab–Byzantine Wars Siege of Constantinople (717–718) by the Umayyads Siege of Toulouse (721) – Umayyad...

On 25 March 717, Leo was proclaimed emperor in Hagia Sophia. Maria enters historical record at this point as his Empess consort. In July 718, Maria gave...

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...

sought to break Byzantium by taking Constantinople, but the newly crowned Leo III managed to repel the 717–718 siege, the first major setback of the Muslim...

"L'Expedition de Maslama contre Constantinople (717-718)". Études byzantines (in French). Paris: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Paris:...

caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717) began preparing another huge expedition to conquer Constantinople. At the same time, the disasters of the...

695–717 Twenty Years' Anarchy 708 Byzantine–Bulgarian battle of Anchialus 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania 715–718 Frankish Civil War (715–718) 717–718...

carried out even while a huge army under Maslama was besieging Constantinople in 717–718. After the failure of this undertaking, Arab attacks continued...

established 711–718: Umayyad conquest of Hispania 717: Second Arab siege of Constantinople 721: death of Ardo, last king of the Visigoths 718-722: Battle...

Anastasius was almost immediately faced with the Second Arab siege of Constantinople (717–718), forcing him to seek assistance from the Bulgars. He in turn...

individuals later arose claiming to be Tiberius: one in 717/718 during the Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs; and another in 737. The second impostor...

product of other sieges of Constantinople that took place on later dates: at 860 by the Russians, 820 by the Slovaks, or at 671 and 717–718 by the Moslems...

Sicily (827), Malta (870), as well as the sieges of the Eastern Roman capital (first in 674–78 and then in 717–18) severed the economic, cultural, and political...

Blachernae within the city. The Byzantine victory during the Arab siege of 717-718 was also credited to the protection of the Virgin Vlachernitissa, as...

remaining territories and decisively repulsing two Arab sieges of its capital in 674–678 and 717–718. The Byzantine Empire also lost its territories in Crete...

just in time to save the capital from the Muslim sieges of 674–678 and 717–718, which might have otherwise proven fatal to the Byzantine state. Greek...

Council held. 698 – Outbreak of plague. 717–718 – Siege of Constantinople (717–18). 740 – October 26: 740 Constantinople earthquake. 747 – Outbreak of plague...