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Basil II Porphyrogenitus (Greek: Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος Basileios Porphyrogennetos; 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (Greek: ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος...

Volume II A.I. Akram, The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns Lahore, 1969 Takirtakoglou, Konstantinos (2021). "The Battle of Firāḍ:...

Byzantine Emperors, namely Nikephoros II Phokas, John I Tzimiskes and finally Basil II to recapture territory lost to the Muslim conquests in the 7th century...

erection of Emperor Basil I the Macedonian's Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople. When the fleet eventually sailed, under the command of a certain...

the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 632, Muslim leadership passed to Caliph Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) following a series of campaigns known as the...

and the share of booty of a man who was present at Badr". Furthermore, during the campaigns of Ghatafan and Dhat al-Riqa the Prophet of Islam left Uthman...

The Battle of Ajnadayn (Arabic: معركة أجنادين) was fought in July or August 634 (Jumada I or II, 13 AH), in a location close to Beit Guvrin in the Roman-era...

History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A.D. 802–867), London: Macmillan and Co., pp. 294–302 Treadgold, Warren...

Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir (1992). The history of at-Tabari Vol. 12 (Yohanan...

in 1025, but the expedition was called off when news came of the death of Emperor Basil II. A final effort was made in 1038, when the talented young general...

ISBN 9781850430575. (e-book). History of the Great Feudal War Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Basil s.v. Basil II." . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia...

began a war of conquest, beginning with Iraq. His most brilliant general, Khalid ibn al-Walid, conquered Iraq in a series of successful campaigns against...

him to "return with all haste to the court of the Caliph, so that his soldiers might join additional campaigns being planned elsewhere", however there was...

the command of Abu al-A'war and the Byzantine Empire led by emperor Constans II (r. 641–668). The battle was part of the earliest campaign by Mu'awiya...

captures of forts or towns. Nevertheless, in 737 a major victory over the Khazars allowed the Arabs to shift their focus and intensify their campaigns against...

instead of five. This can be reconciled either by including the opening campaigns of 672–673, or by counting the years until the final withdrawal of the Arab...

the Bulgarians under Samuel. 1018: Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria. 1021-1022: Campaigns of Basil II against Georgia. 1027: Pecheneg raid in the Balkans...

Arab siege of Constantinople and expectations of the city's fall had prompted the local governor to declare an emperor of his own, Basil Onomagoulos...

The siege of Messina was launched by the Aghlabids, allied with the Neapolitans, against the Byzantine city of Messina from 842 to 843. The Allied forces...

Palestine. After putting an end to the internal strife, Basil II launched a counter-campaign against the Arabs in 995. The Byzantine civil wars had weakened...