Siege of Germanicia
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The Siege of Germanikeia or Marash was carried out by troops of the Islamic Caliphate in the year during their invasion in 638. The city surrendered without major bloodshed. The campaign in Anatolia was the last of the famous Arab general Khalid ibn al - Walid.
Background
Muslims was 636 at the Battle of Yarmuk a complete victory succeeded in an attempt by the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius failed to recapture the province of Syria. Lacking imperial troops for other campaigns he called Christian Arabs from Mesopotamia to help. These besieged the fallen to the Muslims Emesa in the summer of 638 Muslims relocated to a defensive strategy that led to the Battle of Emesa. All garrisons from the occupied cities in Syria were concentrated at Emesa. The Christian Arabs had to withdraw, as another Muslim army from Iraq attacked its headquarters in Mesopotamia. As they begin the march back them fell, the Muslim cavalry under Khalid ibn al - Walid in the back, which they were scattered. Caliph Umar then ordered an invasion of Mesopotamia, which was conquered in a few months. Once the western Mesopotamia was conquered wrote Abu Ubaidah ibn al - Jarrah a letter to Umar and asked them, Ayadh 'm Ghanam, who also led a campaign in the west of Mesopotamia, to insinuate his command, so he could send him on raids into Anatolia. Umar agreed.
Siege
In the autumn of 638 Abu Ubaidah sent several departments, including under the command of Khalid ibn al - Walid and Ayadh to the Eastern Roman ruled Anatolia to plunder two to Tarsus in the West. Khalid's main target was Germanikeia (Arabic: Marash ), located at the foot of the Taurus Mountains. Late in the year 638 began his army to the siege of the city, which was manned by a garrison. Since they could hope for no help from Emperor Heraclius, the garrison surrendered on the usual terms, which included the protection of the population in numbers of jizya. However, the Muslims were able to acquire the whole property of the defeated.
Follow
The Muslims returned with a large number of riches loaded back to Chalcis in Syria. Since the Caliph after this latest successful campaign the popularity Khalid feared he dismissed it from the command of his forces in Syria. Instead of a (probably successful ) revolt against Umar to start obeying the commander and sat down to rest in Emesa, where he died in 642.