Arab conquest of Egypt
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title:
Arab conquest of Egypt
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The Arab conquest of Egypt, led by the army of 'Amr ibn al-'As, took place between 639 and 642 AD and was overseen by the Rashidun Caliphate. It ended the seven-century-long Roman period in Egypt that had begun in 30 BC, and widely speaking Greco-Roman period that had lasted about a millennium. Shortly before the conquest, Byzantine rule in the country had been shaken, as Egypt had been conquered and occupied for a decade by the Sasanian Empire in 618–629, before being recovered by the Byzantine
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639–646 Rashidun Caliphate campaign
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_conquest_of_Egypt
date created:
2005-10-08T21:13:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T01:39:45Z
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