Comment by xdennis
3 days ago
How is Arab conquest of Palestine "resistance"? Palestine was at the time controlled by the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerus...
3 days ago
How is Arab conquest of Palestine "resistance"? Palestine was at the time controlled by the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerus...
Yarmuk 636 is one of the most depressing events in history.
Whenever I read about that or the disasters that ensued in the following centuries I always spend a day depressed.
Grim.