Joint Rule Byzantine Empire-Caliphate

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Was a joint-rule over Cyprus by the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.

Establishment

January 689: In 688, the emperor Justinian II and the caliph Abd al-Malik reached an unprecedented agreement. The Arabs evacuated Cyprus, and for the next 300 years, the island was ruled jointly by both the Caliphate and the Byzantines as a condominium, despite the nearly constant warfare between the two parties on the mainland.

Chronology

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1. Arab-Byzantine Wars

Were a series of wars between a number of Muslim Arab dynasties and the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 11th century. Conflict started during the initial Muslim conquests, under the expansionist Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs, in the 7th century and continued by their successors until the mid-11th century.

January 966: Cyprus conquered by Byzantine Empire.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 873: In the year 872, in the Battle of Bathys Ryax he definitively defeated the Paulician heretics who had rebelled in the previous years and had allied themselves with the Arabs, obtaining, among other successes, also the taking and sacking of Ephesus and was able to reconquer the island of Cyprus, albeit for only seven years.

January 880: Under Basil I the Macedonian (r. 867-886) Byzantine troops recaptured Cyprus, which was established as a theme, but after seven years the island reverted to the previous status quo.