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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Battle of Fontenoy, Byzantine-Arab Wars, History of Islam in southern Italy, Sack of Amorium, Ganlu Incident, Bulgarian-Serbian Wars, Battle of Versinikia, Zanj Rebellion, Battle of Lalakaon, Battle of Ethandun, Battle of Pliska, Battle of Boulgarophygon, Battle of Anzen, Rus'-Byzantine War, Battle of Bathys Ryax, Saxon Wars, Siege of Paris, Battle of Ashdown, Later Three Kingdoms, Siege of Baghdad, Battle of Hafrsfjord, Arab conquest of Armenia, Battle of Ballon, Sack of Damietta, Battle of Ellandun, Battle of Jengland, Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus', Battle of Cynwit, Battle of Reading, Harald Fairhair's campaign in Gotaland, AEthelwold's Revolt, Battle of Blain, Siege of Asselt, Siege of Adrianople, Battle of Englefield, Battle of Marton, Battle of Ostia, Battle of Southern Buh, Battle of Basing, Siege of Syracuse, Siege of Serdica, Battle of Brissarthe, Sack of Rome, Kim Heonchang, Battle of Leuven, Battle of Kupa, Battle of Dollar, Battle of Thimeon, Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana. Excerpt: Between 780-1180, the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid & Fatimid caliphates in the regions of Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia and Southern Italy fought a series of wars for supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean. After a period of indecisive and slow border warfare, a string of almost unbroken Byzantine victories in the late 10th and early 11th centuries allowed three Byzantine Emperors, namely Nikephoros II Phocas, John I Tzimiskes and finally Basil II to recapture territory lost to the Muslim conquests in the 7th century Byzantine-Arab Wars under the failing Heraclian Dynasty. Consequently large parts of Syria, including its capital city of Damascus, were taken by the Byzantines, even if only for a few years, with a new theme of Syria integrated into the expanding empire. In addition t..
