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The Muslims were defeated at the Battle of Tours. This stopped their expansion into Europe.
The \muslims pursued the retreating Byzantines Immediately and found them near Damascus. there was another battle and Damascus was taken. The Byzantine emperor did not have the resources to organise a fight back and withdrew to the cathedral of Antioch. After holding a council he sailed back to Constantinople at night.
Charles martel
The push for the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against the Selijuk Turks, who were muslims.
The Hagia Sophia was the main Christian church in Constantinople. It was converted into a mosque when the Muslims took over the city. I believe it is a museum now.
Charles Martel.
The Byzantine Empire was Ruled by the Greek Orthodox Church, centered in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, under Occupation by Turkish Muslims since 1452.
Charles Martel
The Muslims were defeated at the Battle of Tours. This stopped their expansion into Europe.
he defeated them in 1732
Muslims conquered all areas of the Byzantine Empire. Under the Rashidun Caliphate, the Byzantine Empire lost the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, and eastern Anatolia. Under the Ottoman Sultanate, the Byzantine Empire lost western Anatolia, the Balkans, and Constantinople.
Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire held the Muslims at bay in the southeast (Balkans) until the rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 1300s and 1400s. In Western Europe, the Frankish Victory by Charles Martel in 732 C.E. at the Battle of Tours (called by the French as the Battle of Poitiers) against the Amazigh and Arab Islamic Forces from Spain, prevented Islam from reaching western and central Europe from the southwest (Iberia).
Remember this saying, "In 732 at the battle of Tours, Charles Martel defeated the Moors." He was king of the Franks.
The \muslims pursued the retreating Byzantines Immediately and found them near Damascus. there was another battle and Damascus was taken. The Byzantine emperor did not have the resources to organise a fight back and withdrew to the cathedral of Antioch. After holding a council he sailed back to Constantinople at night.
The entire Byzantine Empire was conquered by Muslims at different points. The Rightly-Guided Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate conquered all of the Levant and North African areas under Byzantine control as well as southeast Anatolia. The Seljuk Turks conquered most of the rest of Anatolia. The Ottoman Turks conquered all of the remaining Byzantine territories (mostly the Balkans and Constantinople).
It was Charles Martel, is the most famous defeat of Spanish Muslim invaders at Tours in 732.
The Crusades brought about widespread death, destruction, and displacement among the Muslim communities in the Middle East. They also fueled animosity and distrust between Muslims and Christians that still reverberates in some regions today. Additionally, the Crusades led to the rise of Muslim military leaders and resistance movements to defend against the invading European forces.