Palaestina Prima
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Palaestina Prima or Palaestina I was a Byzantine province that existed from the late 4th century until the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, in the region of Palestine. It included the histor
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Arthur Szyk. Visual History of Nations, Israel, New Canaan, CT
Muslim conquest of Syria
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The Rashidun Caliphate conquered Byzantine Syria between 634–638 CE as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars and the wider Muslim conquests.
Palaestina Prima
…Palaestina Prima or Palaestina I was a Byzantine province that existed from the late 4th century until the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, in the region of Palestine. It included the historical regions of Judea, Samaria and the coastal plain. The province was temporarily lost…
Scene of the Roman Theatre at Palmyra, 2005.
The Monastery of the Temptation, built by the Byzantines in the 6th century over the cave where Jesus spent forty days fasting.
The Kaysan Gate, one of six gates of Damascus besieged by the commanders of the Muslim armies in Syria
The Roman road between the northern Syrian cities of Antioch and Qinnasrin, which the Muslims captured in c. 637