Sentences with 'caliphates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word caliphates and other words derived from it.
• « Heraclius had no way of knowing it, but Byzantium would soon face an even greater threat than the Persians: the Arab caliphates. »
• « The greatest period of contrast between the eastern lands of Byzantium and the caliphates, on the one hand, and most of Europe, on the other, was between the 8th and 11th centuries. During that period, there were no cities in Europe with populations of more than 15,000. »
• « The rather brief and short-lived period of political unity under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, which saw most of the Middle East and North Africa united under the rule of 'caliphs' (political successors to the Prophet Muhammad), had already passed by the time the first European crusaders arrived. »
• « The Ottomans went on to conquer vast territories, including both the lands of the early caliphates and, for the first time, parts of Europe that had never before been in the hands of Islamic rulers, including the islands of the eastern Mediterranean, Greece and the Balkans. »