Conquest of Northern Syria
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Conquest of northern Syria from the Byzantines by the Rashidun Caliphate.
Chronology
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November 635: In 635, the military commander Khalid ibn al-Walid, leading the Rashidun Caliphate forces, conquered the territories of Shayzar, Afamiya, and Matar al-Hamz.
April 636: After a two-month siege, Emesa was conquered in March 636 by the Muslims.
August 636: In the 7th century, during the Muslim conquest of the Levant, the Tanukhids fought with the Romans against the Muslims, including in the Battle of Yarmouk. After Yarmouk, their status as foederati ended.
August 636: The Ghassanids remained a vassal state of the Byzantines until their rulers were overthrown by the Muslims in the conquest of Syria-Palestine, at the time of the second Caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in the 7th century, which ended with the Islamic victory in the battle of the Yarmuk. It was in this battle that 12,000 Ghassanid Arabs were defeated by the Muslims of Khālid b. al-Walid.
