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=Subpages=


 * Timelines
 * Byzantine-Arab Wars timeline
 * Byzantine slavery
 * Byzantine administration
 * Byzantine-Arab Wars 634-750
 * Byzantine-Arab Wars 750-867
 * User:Cplakidas/Komnenoi
 * User:Cplakidas/Sandbox/Melas

Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
A good account of the history of Central Asia in the early Middle Ages can be found in ed. D. Sinor, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 285-316. The classic account of the north-eastern frontiers of Iran and the coming of the Turks is V V Barthold, Turkistan down to the Mongol Invasions (Gibb Memorial Series, London, 1968)

Wars of Justinian I
=Arab-Byzantine Wars= LONG-TERM TARGET: bring all articles to GA and above, write missing ones

Byzantine–Arab Wars, needs to be rewritten

First period, the Arab offensive, 634-750

 * Byzantine-Arab Wars (634–750) (or 718?) (Muslim Conquests) SANDBOX
 * Early conflicts
 * Mutah* Tabouk* Dathin* Firaz


 * Rashidun conquest of Syria
 * Qarteen* Bosra* Ajnadayn* Marj al-Rahit* Fahl* Damascus* Maraj-al-Debaj* Emesa* Yarmouk* Jerusalem* Hazir* Aleppo


 * Rashidun conquest of Egypt
 * Heliopolis* Alexandria* Nikiou


 * Umayyad conquest of North Africa
 * Sufetula* Vescera→*Carthage


 * Umayyad invasions of Anatolia and Constantinople
 * Iron Bridge* Germanicia* Phoenix* 1st Constantinople→* Sebastopolis* Tyana→* 2nd Constantinople→* Nicaea→* Akroinon→

Second period, balance of power, 750-867

 * Byzantine–Arab Wars (750–867) SANDBOX


 * Border warfare
 * Kamacha→* Abbasid invasion of 782→* Kopidnadon→* Krasos→* Abbasid invasion of 806→* Anzen→ and Amorium→* Mauropotamos→* Lalakaon→


 * Sicily → and Southern Italy


 * 1st Syracuse→
 * 2nd Syracuse
 * 1st Malta
 * 3rd Syracuse→
 * Campaigns of Leo Apostyppes→ and Nikephoros Phokas the Elder →
 * 1st Taormina
 * Garigliano
 * Campaigns of Marianos Argyros→
 * 2nd Taormina
 * Rometta
 * Straits of Messina→
 * George Maniakes in Sicily
 * 2nd Malta


 * Naval warfare and raids
 * Phoenix priority: sources available for GA+
 * Muslim conquest of Crete→
 * Keramaia→
 * Thasos→
 * Damietta→
 * Ragusa→
 * Kardia→
 * Gulf of Corinth→
 * Cephalonia→
 * Stelai→
 * Milazzo→
 * Euripos→
 * Thessalonica→ priority: sources available for GA+

Third period, Byzantine reconquest, 867-969
End date 969 as the capture of Antioch and death of Nikephoros Phokas, which coincides with the Fatimid takeover in Egypt.
 * Byzantine–Arab Wars (867–969) SANDBOX


 * Wars with Paulicians etc

Bathys Ryax→ * Battle of Adana 900 (Nik.Phokas) Thessalonica→


 * Byzantine offensive
 * Kourkouas (Melitene?)* Siege of Amida 950* Last raid from Tarsus 951* Sayf al-Dawla campaigns (Marash→ * defeat of Tzimiskes 956 * Sack of Hadath 957*  Raban→*  Andrassos→* Cilician campaign of Nikephoros Phokas 961-962*Tzimiskes 964* Cilician campaign of Nikephoros Phokas 964-965* Nikephoros II Phokas* Antioch & Alexandretta→John Tzimiskes 975-976 campaign

Fourth period, The Fatimid challenge, balance of power and the end, 969-1070s

 * Byzantine–Arab Wars (969–1070s) SANDBOX
 * Byzantine-Fatimid wars
 * Orontes→*Apamea→*Manjutakin→ and Basil II campaigns


 * Battles with the border emirates

Azaz→ * Capture of Edessa (Maniakes), include Jarrahids


 * Other

Cyprus

=Abbasid Caliphs= Long-term project goal: bring all caliphs of the "classical" Abbasid Caliphate to GA and above, along with related major topics.
 * as-Saffah add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * al-Mansur add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * Abu Muslim
 * al-Mahdi add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * al-Hadi add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * Harun al-Rashid add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * al-Amin add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * take material from Fourth Fitna →
 * Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi
 * al-Ma'mun add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * al-Mu'tasim →
 * al-Wathiq →
 * al-Mutawakkil
 * Anarchy at Samarra →
 * al-Muntasir
 * al-Musta'in
 * al-Mu'tazz →
 * al-Muhtadi →  add Tabari
 * al-Mu'tamid →
 * al-Muwaffaq →
 * al-Mu'tadid →
 * al-Muktafi →
 * al-Muqtadir complete with entries from "Crisis and Continuity", "When Baghdad ruled", Tabari
 * Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
 * al-Qahir →  add "When Baghdad ruled"
 * ar-Radi
 * al-Muttaqi add EI, "When Baghdad ruled"
 * al-Mustakfi →
 * al-Muti →
 * al-Ta'i  →  add Hanne, Donohue
 * al-Qadir →, add Hanne, Donohue

=Fatimid Caliphs=
 * 1) al-Mahdi  →  use EI2, Brett 2001 and 2017, TDVIA, possibly Cambridge History?
 * 2) al-Qa'im  →  use Daftary, Brett 2001, TDVIA, possibly Cambridge History?
 * 3) al-Mansur  →  use Brett, Daftary, possibly Cambridge History?, can easily go to GA+
 * 4) al-Mu'izz  use Halm, EI2, Brett, TDVIA, possibly Cambridge History?
 * 5) al-Aziz  →  use Halm, Lev, EI3, possibly Cambridge History? can quickly be brought to GA+
 * 6) al-Hakim
 * 7) al-Zahir
 * 8) al-Mustansir
 * 9) al-Musta'li  →
 * 10) al-Amir  →  use Halm for >GA
 * 11) al-Hafiz  →
 * 12) al-Zafir  →  use Halm, Brett, Cambridge History
 * 13) al-Fa'iz  →
 * 14) al-Adid  →

=Varia= The Ship in Antiquity [http://oeaw.academia.edu/JohannesPreiserKapeller/Papers/506601/Magister_militum_per_Armeniam_-_Ho_ton_Armeniakon_Strategos._Uberlegungen_zum_armenischen_Kommando_im_6._und_7._Jahrhundert_Considerations_on_the_military_command_of_Byzantine_Armenia_in_the_6th_and_7th_century_ Magister militum per Armeniam - Ho ton Armeniakon Strategos. Überlegungen zum armenischen Kommando im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert]

,, , WHITTOW p.125 on Greek Fire and importance of navy in siege sof Cpl.


 * Walker, Paul E., 'The "Crusade" of John Tzimisces in the Light of New Arab Evidence', Byzantion, 47 (1977), pp. 301-27
 * Guillou, André (1965). "La Lucanie byzantine: Étude de géographie historique" (in French). Byzantion 35: 119–149

On the Mosque of Constantinople, cf. pp. 94ff.

Borsari S., "L’ administrazione del tema di Sicilia", Rivista Storica Italiana, 66.II, 1954, 133-158

Ptolemaic stuff

 * "the fundamental study"
 * Fischer-Bovet, Christelle. "The Ptolemaic Army." Oxford Handbooks Online. 2015-03-04. Oxford University Press. Date of access 27 Nov. 2016, &lt;http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-75&gt;
 * "the fundamental study"
 * Fischer-Bovet, Christelle. "The Ptolemaic Army." Oxford Handbooks Online. 2015-03-04. Oxford University Press. Date of access 27 Nov. 2016, &lt;http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-75&gt;
 * Fischer-Bovet, Christelle. "The Ptolemaic Army." Oxford Handbooks Online. 2015-03-04. Oxford University Press. Date of access 27 Nov. 2016, &lt;http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-75&gt;

=Byzantine siege warfare=

Create

 * Manuel Phokas
 * Ashras ibn Abdallah al-Sulami
 * Abu'l-Husayn al-Baridi, reuse from Abu Abdallah al-Baridi
 * Leo Chamaretos ,
 * Niketas Helladikos
 * Niketas (hetaireiarches)
 * Panagia Plataniotissa
 * Bardas Boilas
 * Alexios Makrembolites ("only one Byzantine writer of this age who presents the notion that the ordinary, underprivileged people have any positive role to play in the running of society. His name was Alexios Makrembolites. Among other works he wrote (about 1343) a Dialogue between the Rich and the Poor, which is the closest thing to a sociological document to come out of fourteenth-century Byzantium" Nicol 1979, p. 26)

Translate

 * it:Silvestro Dandolo
 * it:Fabio Bonvicini
 * it:Antonio Canal (ammiraglio)
 * it:Daniele Girolamo Dolfin
 * it:Alessandro Molin
 * it:Carlo Pisani
 * it:Vettor Pisani
 * it:Cristoforo Canal (militare)
 * it:Tommaso Condulmer
 * fr:Aiguière aux oiseaux
 * de:Liste der venezianischen Regimenter der Frühen Neuzeit
 * de:Schweizer Truppen in venezianischen Diensten
 * ca:Khorasan (província del Califat)
 * el:Λάμπρος Ευταξίας
 * el:Νικόλαος Σαρίπολος
 * el:Μητροπολίτης Κοζάνης Ιωακείμ
 * ru:Ревелиоти, Феодосий
 * ru:Мавромихали, Стефан
 * ru:Мелиссино, Иван Иванович

Expand or rewrite

 * Al-Afdal Shahanshah rewrite with Halm, Brett, Dadoyan
 * Ruzzik ibn Tala'i
 * Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi
 * Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
 * Greece in the Balkan Wars (add at least ΙΕΕ, ΔΙΣ)
 * Greece in World War I (add at least ΙΕΕ, ΔΙΣ, Λεονταρίτης)
 * Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah
 * Sacred Gate
 * Abu Rakwa add Halm, Brett
 * Hasan Baba Tekke add Vakalopoulos, TDV IA
 * Fall of the Republic of Venice
 * Hetaireia with Guilland, Karlin-Hayter, Haldon
 * Ibn Muqla, Bajkam , Muhammad ibn Yaqut , Muhammad ibn Ra'iq with Bowen; Ibn Ra'iq probably mostly done
 * Upper Satrapies use Strategie
 * Abu Yazid use Halm
 * Holy League (1332)

Near GA

 * Comentiolus
 * Philippicus (comes excubitorum)
 * Justinian (magister militum per Orientem)
 * Leo Sgouros
 * Leo Phokas the Elder
 * Al-Harith ibn Jabalah
 * Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey (include Vacalopoulos)
 * Duchy of Durazzo (Republic of Venice) include Ducellier
 * Battle of the Masts include Haldon (Byz. in the 7th century, Kennedy (Great Arab Conquests)
 * Sack of Thessalonica (904) (cleanup and add citations, sources)
 * Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes add Lutrell
 * Third Fitna add Background, politics
 * Grand domestic, add Kyriakidis
 * Septinsular Republic clean up Languages & Religion sections, add Zanou, French book on Ionian Islands
 * Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi add sections, change Halm to German version
 * Battle of the Straits replace with German Halm, add Eickhoff
 * Tala'i ibn Ruzzik add Halm
 * Dirgham add Halm
 * Barjawan add Halm
 * Abu Tahir al-Jannabi
 * Ibn Masal add Halm
 * Siege of Thessalonica (676–678) add remaining sources
 * Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu  add Papademetriou
 * Ottoman reconquest of the Morea add Vakalopoulos, Pinzelli, Hatzopoulos
 * Podestà of Constantinople add Jacoby from Further reading
 * Siege of Corfu (1716) add Prelli, Hatzopoulos
 * Euphemius (Sicily) add Prigent
 * Battle of Andros (1790)
 * Leo of Tripoli
 * Vatatzes
 * Sulayman ibn Hisham
 * Angelo Emo

FA potential

 * Bardanes Tourkos (incl. Byzanz unter Eirene)
 * Michael Lachanodrakon (incl. Byzanz unter Eirene)
 * Vitalian (general)
 * Priscus (general)
 * John Troglita
 * Qutayba ibn Muslim (Shaban & Kennedy)
 * Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi  ???
 * Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar  add Halm
 * Alid revolt of 762–763 expand with
 * Fatimid navy add  Les Fatimides et la mer
 * John I Doukas of Thessaly add Тесалија у XIII и XIV веку
 * Michael I Komnenos Doukas include 'political history of Epirus', Nicol 1957
 * Nikephoros Phokas the Elder include Cheynet, Gregoire
 * Isaac I Komnenos add Stanescu
 * al-Muktafi
 * Alexios Komnenos (protosebastos)
 * Battle of Pelagonia check the remaining sources listed there

FAC-ready

 * Battle of Gallipoli (1416)
 * Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri
 * Battle of Kapetron
 * Manuel Komnenos (son of Andronikos I)
 * Ahmad ibn Tulun
 * Al-Muktafi
 * Al-Wathiq
 * Manuel Kamytzes
 * Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I)
 * Battle of Andrassos
 * Battle of Fakhkh

=Western naval battles against the Turks= cf. Pryor, Geography, Technology, and War, p. 166


 * Battle of Amorgos (1312)
 * Battle of Chios (1319)
 * Battle of Rhodes (1320)
 * Battle of Adramyttion (1334)
 * Battle of Pallene (1344)
 * Battle of Smyrna (1344) -> Smyrniote crusades
 * Battle of Imbros (1347)
 * Battle of Megara (1359)
 * Battle of Antalya (1362) -> crusade of Peter I of Cyprus,
 * Battle of Gallipoli (1416)
 * Battle of Negroponte (1470)
 * Battle of Zonchio (1499)
 * Battle of Zonchio (1500)
 * Battle of Preveza (1538)
 * Battle of Lepanto (1571)