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People: Emperor Liu SongWu of
Topic: Byzantine-Muslim War of 851-63
Location: Yi Nei Mongol Zizhiqu (Inner Mongolia) China

Byzantine-Muslim War of 851-63

Years: 851 - 863

The Byzantines war with the Abbasids and their clients.

Successful Byzantine raids in Syria, Mesopotamia and Egypt are checked by a series of Muslim invasions of Anatolia in 860.

Another invasion in 863 sees the complete annihilation of the Muslim army at the Battle of Lalakaon.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)