Cyprus betwixt Greeks and Saracens, A.D. 647-965

Thesis

A re-examination of the documentary evidence in conjunction with, and in the light of, available archaeological evidence indicates that:

For some sixty years after Muawiya's first Arab raid against Cyprus, in 649, the Island was under the control of whichever of the two powers contesting it - Byzantium and Islam - was the stronger.

After the second Arab raid of 653/4 an Arab garrison may have been established in Cyprus, as the Arab chronicler Baladhuri states. But numismatic ...

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Authors: Dikigoropoulos, AI

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Byzantine Empire; Islamic Empire; Foreign relations; Islamic; Cyprus; Greeks; Saracens
• Subjects: Cyprus -- History; Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- Islamic Empire; Islamic Empire -- Foreign relations -- Byzantine Empire