between
Byzantine Empire and
Islamic World were the result of
Muslim military expansion after the unifications by
Muhammed .
The Byzantine Empire had just come out of the exhausting
Roman-Persian Wars prior to the Arabian conflict. Upon the death of Muhammed in
632 , raids, and eventually the invasion into
Syria .
The Byzantine army, composed of
Christian forces, including
Armenia ns,
Slavs ,
Ghassanids , and of course, the soldiers of Byzantium themselves engaged the
Arab forces. Byzantinans were defeated in
636 at the
Battle Of Yarmuk . Sequestering both
Damascus and
Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim armies left
Antioch to the Byzantine's control.
In the
Battle Of Syllaeum in 677, the Byzantine navy engaged the Muslim navies, soundly defeating them in the
Sea Of Marmara . This victory bringing a halt to the invasion of
Europe and Muslim expansion for almost thirty years.
