"The First Arab Siege of Constantinople" Topic

"Introduction: No handbook of Byzantine history fails to mention the first Arab siege of Constantinople, a symbolic event that marks the turning of the tide in the first wave of Arab conquests. Usually thought to have lasted four years, from around 674 to 678, it has assumed in the eyes of Byzantinists an epochal significance. After 40 years of continuous defeats by victorious armies of Islam, the successful defence of the city of Constantine saved in extremis the Empire and, for some scholars, the European civilisation. To Georgije Ostrogorsky, "the significance of the Byzantine victory of 678 cannot be overestimated. For the first time the Arab advance was really checked and the invasion which had swept forward as irresistibly as an avalanche was now halted. In the defence of Europe against the Arab onslaught this triumph of Constantine IV was a turning point of world-wide historical importance. […] The fact that it [Constantinople] held saved not only the Byzantine Empire, but the whole of the European civilization."…"
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Armand

Good that the great siege is being remembered not only in Greece.