Under him the Muslim navy won a number of naval victories including repulsing a Byzantine counter-attack on in 646 | Emperor Constans embarked against it with a large fleet |
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The chronicles of the Armenian Sebeos and Byzantine Theophanes concur with the latter date | Warren Treadgold, A history of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford University Press 1997, p |
The victory also paved the path for uncontested Muslim expansion along the coastline of North Africa.
3And although the Caliphate emerged victorious, they retreated to recoup their losses | Dating [ ] records two possible dates for this naval battle: 651-2 A |
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, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One, Islamic Egypt 640—1517, , 1998, 67 | Uthman permitted Muawiyah to raid the island of in 649 and the success of that campaign set the stage for the undertaking of naval activities by the Government of |
Nonetheless, the victory was a significant event in the naval history of the Mediterranean Sea.
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