Byzantine Syria (330 to 609, 628 to 636CE)

A Byzantine Syria (330 to 609, 628 to 636CE) is a region that ...

• Context:
  • It can have a population of Greeks, Syrians, Arabs, and Armenians.
  • It can (typically) be north of Syria Palaestina.
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• See: Roman Syria, Sasasian Persians, Muslim Conquest of The Levant, Phoenice (Roman Province), Roman Empire, Syria, Coele Syria (Roman Province), Roman Province.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Syria#Syria_in_the_Byzantine_Empire Retrieved:2023-11-4.
  • After c. 415, Syria Coele was further subdivided into Syria I (or Syria Prima), with its capital remaining at Antioch, and Syria II (Syria Secunda) or Syria Salutaris, with its capital at Apamea on the Orontes. In 528, Justinian I carved out the small coastal province Theodorias out of territory from both provinces.

    The city of Antioch was reconquered by Nikephorus Phocas in 963, along with other parts of the country, at that time under the Hamdanids, although still under the official suzerainty of the Abbasid caliphs and also claimed by the Fatimid caliphs. After emperor John Kurkuas failed to conquer Syria up to Jerusalem, a Muslim reconquest of Syria followed in the late 970s undertaken by the Fatimid Caliphate that resulted in the ousting of the Byzantines from most parts of Syria. However, Antioch and other northern parts of Syria remained in the empire and other parts were under the protection of the emperors through their Hamdanid, Mirdasid, and Marwanid proxies, until the Seljuk arrival, who after three decades of incursions, conquered Antioch in 1084. Antioch was captured again during the 12th century by the revived armies of the Comnenii. However, by that time the city was regarded as part of Asia Minor and not of Syria.

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