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The King's Mosque in Pristina, Kosovo
Albanian rebels capturing Skopje in August 1912
Battle of Nicopolis in the year 1396
The woodcut by Leonhard Beck, from c. 1515, depicts the Battle of Krbava Field between the army of Croatian nobility and Ottoman akinji.
The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests, also known as the Arab conquests, were a series of religious wars initiated by Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and continued by the early Muslims
Arab cavalry pursue fleeing Byzantines
Sasanian weaponry, 7th century
Bilingual Latin-Arabic dinar minted in Iberia AH 98 (716/7 AD)
Byzantine manuscript illustration showing Greek fire in action