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    The siege of Jerusalem (636637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against...
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  • Siege of Jerusalem, fall of Jerusalem, or sack of Jerusalem may refer to: Siege of Jebus (1010 BC), a siege by David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel...
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  • Christians in 629 CE. Jerusalem was captured by the Rashidun Caliphate in 637 CE as part of the Siege of Jerusalem (636637). As part of the Temple Mount Sifting...
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    Empire at the Battle of Nineveh (627). Heraclius personally returns the True Cross to the city. 636637: Siege of Jerusalem (636637) Arabian Caliph Umar...
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  • of his very strong resemblance to Umar. Khalid was recognized and eventually, Umar came and the Jerusalem surrendered on April 637. After Jerusalem,...
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  • Levant Siege of Emesa (635) – Muslim conquest of the Levant Siege of Laodicea (636) – Muslim conquest of the Levant Siege of Jerusalem (636637) – Muslim...
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    all of Syria, was then in Muslim hands (Britannica: Palestine – Roman Palestine). See Battle of Yarmouk, Siege of Jerusalem (636637), Battle of Dathin...
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  • The Siege of Jerusalem (636637) by the forces of the Rashid Caliph Umar against the Byzantines began in November 636. For four months, the siege continued...
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  • Shurahbil ibn Hasana (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
    Muslim generals after a siege of several years. Shurahbil died in 639 in the Plague of Amwas in central Palestine along with another of the four main Muslim...
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    Year 637 (DCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 637 for this...
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    resistance: 207  or after a siege and breaching of the wall with artillery. Following the Sasanians capture of Jerusalem tens of thousands of Byzantine Christians...
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    accept the surrender of Jerusalem in April 637. Umar appointed his close advisor Ali to hold the lieutenancy of Medina. After Jerusalem, the Muslim armies...
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  • Khalid ibn al-Walid (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
    Byzantines) and besieged the city probably in the winter of 636637. The siege held amid a number of sorties by the Byzantine defenders and the city capitulated...
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  • Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
    part in the siege of Damascus, beginning in 634. Following the fall of city in 635, or later in 637, Yazid became the deputy governor of Damascus under...
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  • Battle of Fahl – 635 – Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arab–Byzantine wars) Siege of Jerusalem (636637) – 636637 or 638 – Muslim conquest of the Levant...
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    Caliphate in 637–638 CE, and its conquest by the European Catholic armies of the First Crusade in 1099. Throughout this period, Jerusalem remained a largely...
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    victories pertinently ended Byzantine rule south of Anatolia, and Jerusalem fell in April 637 after a prolonged siege, Umar personally came to receive the key...
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    Siege of Damascus Battle of Maraj-al-Debaj 635–636Siege of Emesa 636 – Battle of Yarmouk 637Siege of Jerusalem Battle of Hazir 637Siege of Aleppo...
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    Bilad al-Sham (category Geography of the Middle East)
    (military districts; singular jund) of Filastin (Palestine), al-Urdunn (Jordan), Dimashq (Damascus), and Hims (Homs), between 637 and 640 by Caliph Umar following...
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    Arab–Byzantine wars (category Invasions of Europe)
    637 the Arabs, after a long siege, captured Jerusalem, which was surrendered by Patriarch Sophronius. In the summer of 637, the Muslims conquered Gaza...
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  • Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (category History of the foreign relations of China)
    of the Sasanian capital Ctesiphon in 636. After the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Siege of Ctesiphon (637), Sa'd served as the supreme commander of...
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  • 636 Battle of al-Qādisiyyah January–March 637 Siege of Ctesiphon April 637 Battle of Jalula 633–644 Muslim conquest of Persia April 633 Battle of River...
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    conquered Jerusalem, held by the Byzantine Romans, in November, 636. For four months the siege continued. Ultimately, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Sophronius...
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  • 630s (section 636)
    Persian general (or 636) Wen Yanbo, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 575) 638 March 11 – Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem October 12 – Pope Honorius...
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  • Battle of Fahl. 636: Battle of Yarmuk, Battle of al-Qādisiyyah, Conquest of Madain. Naval raid by Muslims on at Tanah, near Mumbai. 637: Conquest of Syria...
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    David (1994). Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim Conquest of Syria. Osprey Publishing. Marshall J., Breger; Ahimeir, Ora (2002). Jerusalem: A City and Its Future...
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    Rashidun Caliphate (category History of Central Asia)
    636. Abu Ubaida held a meeting with his high command officers, including Khalid, to decide on future conquests, settling on Jerusalem. The siege of Jerusalem...
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  • the Battle of Jerusalem. The British Army's General Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot, in a reference to the entrance of Caliph Umar in 637. 1918: February...
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    romanized: Nabard-e Qâdisiyeh) was an armed conflict which took place in 636 CE between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sasanian Empire. It occurred during...
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    painstakingly slow reaction of the Sassanids. After smashing both the Byzantines at Yarmuk (636) and the Persians at Qadisiyah (637), Muslim expansion set...
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