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711 - 712 AD
The Muslim defenders soundly defeated the Christian crusaders who were attempting to capture Damascus. The crusaders returned to their homelands with the remnants of their armies, and that was the end of the Second Crusade.
Yes, in 1492 the Spanish armies led by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella conquered Granada, marking the end of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula and completing the Reconquista.
Alexander the great was able to conquer part of Persia, Macedonia, and Asia Minor among other lands. He had an ingenious means of military command that always surprised even the largest armies of that generation.
Alexander the great was able to conquer part of Persia, Macedonia, and Asia Minor among other lands. He had an ingenious means of military command that always surprised even the largest armies of that generation.
Islam as a religion began to expand to places not yet conquered by the Umayyad Caliphs and their armies, resulting in an expansion of the Islamic World that was greater than the size of the actual Empire. The Empire, though, remained the primary method of Islamic Expansion in this period and this was facilitated by armies and conquest.
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Goths, Huns, Sassanid Persia, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Avars, Slavs, Muslim Caliphate, Bulgaria, Rus', Normans, Crusader states, Seljuks, Anatolian beyliks, Ottomans and others
The armies were known as the Arab Nomads, Jihadis, or Mujahedin.
The Sahara Desert stood as a powerful border for Muslim armies for several centuries.
1279
Saladin