Saturday, July 6, 2024

 

Greetings all,
 
Today we reflect with sadness on the Byzantine defeat at the Battle of Heliopolis on July 6th in 640 AD:
 
 
The loss to Islamic forces led to the permanent loss of Egypt as a Roman province. Egypt had been added to the Roman Empire by Augustus after the defeat of Cleopatra in 30 AD, so Egypt had been part of the Roman Empire for 610 years.
 
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
 www.byzantiumnovum.org
 
 

 

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