Valentinus is by early 642 the most …
Years: 642 - 642
Valentinus is by early 642 the most powerful man in the Empire, and is apparently rendered quasi-imperial honors, most notably by being allowed to wear the imperial purple.
At the same time, he is appointed commander-in-chief of the imperial army, and his daughter Fausta is married to the young Emperor Constans II and proclaimed Augusta.
The regime establishes a new civil-military defensive organization based upon geographical military districts called themes, or thema.
Imperial forces maintain the frontier along the line of the Taurus Mountains in southern Anatolia.
Under Constans, the imperial forces completely withdraw from Egypt in 642, and Caliph Uthman launches numerous attacks on the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea.
The Muslim Arabs seize Egypt from the Empire in the second year of Constans’ reign.
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People
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- Arab people
- Jews
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Christians, Monotheletist
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
Topics
- Migration Period
- Migration Period Pessimum
- Byzantine Papacy
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Muslim Conquest of Persia
- Byzantine-Muslim War of 633-42
- Muslim Conquest of Egypt
- Muslim Conquest of Armenia
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Years: 642 - 642
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Jews
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Christians, Monotheletist
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
Topics
- Migration Period
- Migration Period Pessimum
- Byzantine Papacy
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Muslim Conquest of Persia
- Byzantine-Muslim War of 633-42
- Muslim Conquest of Egypt
- Muslim Conquest of Armenia
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions