The Syrian campaigns of John Tzimiskes were a series of campaigns undertaken by the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes against the Fatimid Caliphate in the Levant and against the Abbasid Caliphate in
John Tzimiskes receiving ambassadors from the Rus, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes.
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Syrian campaigns of John Tzimiskes
…to the east in Spring 975. Tzimiskes, once again, marched out of Antioch and down the Orontes, quickly taking Emesa. From there he besieged and took Heliopolis, and then advanced on Damascus, whose ruler, Amir Aftakin, a refugee from Baghdad who had recognized Fatimid suzerainty, surrendered his lands to…
Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon
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Hotel Palmyra, Baalbek Lebanon, March 2001
Lebanon, Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter