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Early Muslim conquests | |||||||
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Arab invasions of Byzantine Armenia in Anatolia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Rashidun Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate |
Byzantine Empire Byzantine Armenia Sassanid Empire Sassanid Armenia Khazaria | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Iyad ibn Ghanim Salman ibn Rabiah |
Theodore Rshtuni Constans II Sarvand bin Boulos The Rumi Mauryan † Bargik tarkhan † Khazar Tarkhan † Tuman Shah | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | 100,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown |
Unknown killed 35,000 captured |
The Muslim conquest of Armenia was a part of the Muslim conquests after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 632 CE. Persarmenia had fallen to the Arab Rashidun Caliphate by 645 CE. Byzantine Armenia was already conquered in 638–639.