Özet:

Muslim forces entered Anatolia from Antakya and arrived Theodopolis (Erzurum). Thus Byzantine-Arab borderland occured after first Islam Conquests. It appears indeed that Heraclius attempted to forestall further withdrawals by turning Cilicia into a sort of no-man’s land after his final departure from Syria: and establishing in the Amanos mountains to the defensive region or Byzantine-Arab border. Just as the Byzantine frontier played on important part in the life of Umeyyed and Abbasid State. Arab forces began to concentrate on establishing a defensive border and protecting the territory which lay behind Abbasid forces did strike deep into Byzantine territory-the raid of Harun al-Reşid in 872 such attacks were aimed chiefly at the collection of booty and at damaging Byzantine morale. Thus the situation reached by the middle of the eighth century was not substantially altered until the tenth century when the great reconquest under Phokas and Tzimiskes took place.

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