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Was the First Islamic Siege of Constantinople (674 – 678 AD) a Historical Misnomer?
In 636 AD, the armies of Islam under the Rashidun Caliphate, defeated the forces of the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Yarmouk (near the Yarmouk River, along what today are the borders of Syria–Jordan and Syria–Israel, east of the Sea of...
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