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Location: Sort Cataluña Spain

Bosra, Battle of

Years: 634 - 634

The Battle of Bosra is fought in 634 between the Rashidun Caliphate army and the Byzantine Empire for the possession of Bosra, in Syria.

The city, at this time capital of the Ghassanid kingdom, a Byzantine vassal, is the first important one to be captured by the Islamic forces.

The siege lastsbetween June and July 634.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)