World-changing639 CE – 646 CE · 7 years

Muslim Conquest of Egypt

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Pelusium · Babylon Fortress · Heliopolis · Alexandria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Amr ibn al-As's conquest of Byzantine Egypt, including the Battle of Heliopolis and the sieges of Babylon and Alexandria.

Belligerents2

Rashidun Caliphate
Byzantine Empire

ON THE MAPRashidun CaliphateByzantine Empire (600-750)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Memphis638 CE
Battle of Pelusium640 CE
Battle of Alexandria641 CE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Muslim Conquest of Egypt (639 CE – 646 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/muslim-conquest-of-egypt · Sources & methodology