Internal disorder in the Muslim world during …
Years: 746 - 746
Internal disorder in the Muslim world during the late 740s plays into Constantine's hands as the 'Abbasid house fights to seize the caliphate from the Umayyads.
Constantine’s navy defeats a caliphate fleet near Cyprus, enabling the imperial forces to drive a Muslim garrison from the island.
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People
Groups
- Arab people
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Muslims, Sunni
- Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Cyprus, Roman-Umayyad condominium of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Isaurian dynasty
