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ARTICLES RELATED TO Heraclius - External link | | | |  Heraclius - External link: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - The war against PersiaWhen Heraclius took power, the Empire was in a desperate situation. Phocas's initial revolt had stripped the Danube frontier of troops, leaving the most of the Balkans at the mercy of the Avars. The Persian King Chosroes II, who had been an ally of Maurice, used his death as an excuse to launch a war against the Byzantines. Chosroes had at his court a man who claimed to be Maurice's son Theodosius, and Chosroes demanded that the Byzantines accept him as Emperor. The Persians had slowly gained the upper hand in Mesopotamia over the course of Phocas's reign; when Heraclius' revolt resulted in civil war, the Persians took advantage ...
See also:Heraclius, Heraclius - Origins, Heraclius - The revolt against Phocas and the accession of Heraclius, Heraclius - The war against Persia, Heraclius - The war against the Arabs, Heraclius - Legacy, Heraclius - External link Read more here: » Heraclius: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - The war against Persia |
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| | | | Heraclius - External link: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - Legacy Although his defeat of the Persians produced no lasting benefit to the empire, Heraclius still ranks among the greatest of the Byzantine emperors. His reforms of the government reduced the corruption which had taken hold in the disastrous reign of Phocas, and he reorganized the military with great success. Ultimately, the reformed imperial army halted the Muslims in Asia Minor and held on to Carthage for another 60 years, saving a core from which the ...
See also:Heraclius, Heraclius - Origins, Heraclius - The revolt against Phocas and the accession of Heraclius, Heraclius - The war against Persia, Heraclius - The war against the Arabs, Heraclius - Legacy, Heraclius - External link Read more here: » Heraclius: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - Legacy |
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| | | | Heraclius - External link: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - The war against the Arabs Unfortunately for Heraclius' war-weary empire, and unknown to him at the time, Muhammad had only recently succeeded in unifying all the nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs, who had been too divided in the past to pose a military threat, now comprised one of the most powerful states in the region, and were animated by their new conversion to Muhammad's religion of Islam.
Heraclius fell ill soon after his triumph over the Persians and never took the field again. When the Arab Muslims invaded Syria and Palestine in 634, he ...
See also:Heraclius, Heraclius - Origins, Heraclius - The revolt against Phocas and the accession of Heraclius, Heraclius - The war against Persia, Heraclius - The war against the Arabs, Heraclius - Legacy, Heraclius - External link Read more here: » Heraclius: Encyclopedia II - Heraclius - The war against the Arabs |
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