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Events

  • 640: The Muslims under ʿ Amr ibn al - ʿ ås defeat at the Battle of Heliopolis, the Byzantines in Egypt. Alexandria can still claim to 642. Egypt will govern a province of the Umayyad, from Damascus.
  • Spread of Islam in the eastern North Africa and Persia.
  • 642: The Battle of the Nehawend Sassanid Empire collapsed under the onslaught of the Arabs.
  • 644: ʿ Uthmān ibn ʿ Affan, a son of Mohammed, is chosen after the assassination of his predecessor, Umar ibn al - Khattab in Medina for the third Caliph of the Muslims.
  • 645 the Byzantine fleet is severely beaten by the Muslims off the coast of Lycia. Byzantium loses the naval supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea to the Arab Muslims.
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