An epidemic disease breaks out in Emmaus …
Years: 639 - 639
An epidemic disease breaks out in Emmaus (Imwas) in Palestine, striking the city and the military camps of the Muslim Arabs, killing most of its population (probably an estimated twenty-five thousand people).
Locations
People
- 'Amr ibn al-'As
- Abu-Musa Ashaari
- Aishah
- Ali
- Heraclius
- Khālid ibn al-Walīd
- Muawiyah I
- Theodore
- Umar
- Uthman ibn Affan
- Yazdegerd III
- Zubayr ibn al-Awam
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Zoroastrians
- Jews
- Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Christians, Maronite
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Christians, Monophysite
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Islam
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Filastin (Caliphal Palestine)
- Christians, Monotheletist
Topics
- Migration Period
- Famines and plagues 400 to 800
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Muslim Conquest of Persia
- Byzantine-Muslim War of 633-42
- Plague of Emmaus
