Cyprus between Muslim Arabs and Byzantines (28-355 A.H. / 648-965 A.D.)

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 1, 1999
Pages
76-97

Abstract

The strategic, military and commercial importance of Cyprus has emerged since the first century of the seventh immigration, and therefore whoever controls it threatens the neighboring coasts in the Levant, Asia Minor and even Egypt, so the Muslim Arabs warn of its danger due to its proximity to them and for its taking a Byzantine naval base, and it is considered a commercial terminal between the coasts of the Mediterranean and its west. The well-known trade route passes through it. The Muslim Arabs decided to open it and that was done and they were bound by conditions that would make it stand on neutrality. The Muslim Arabs did not settle in Cyprus much, but they monitored its implementation, according to the terms of the treaty peace throughout the period (28-355 / 648-965 AD), so I paid them tribute and provided forced labor It was exposed to the Nadibian campaigns in the Umayyad and Abbasid eras as a result of its breach of peace.

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Obeed, T. (1999). Cyprus between Muslim Arabs and Byzantines (28-355 A.H. / 648-965 A.D.). Adab Al-Rafidayn, 29(32), 76–97. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1999.166679