2018•Unpublished venueRequires access
A furious storm fell upon them - The Arab siege of Constantinople, 717-718
Michael Stewart
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Abstract
On the morning of 15 August 717, the residents of Constantinople awoke to find their resplendent city besieged by 100,000 of the Umayyad Caliphate’s finest soldiers. Years in the planning, the siege was the recently emerged Muslim Empire’s most ambitious attempt to capture Constantinople and snuff out the stubborn resistance of the Christian Roman Empire once and for all.