Battle of the Masts
655 naval battle of the Arab–Byzantine wars / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of the Masts (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة ذَات الصَّوَارِي, romanized: Maʿrakat Dhāt al-Ṣawārī) was a naval battle fought in 655 between the Rashidun Caliphate under the command of Abu al-A'war and the Byzantine Empire led by emperor Constans II (r. 641–668).
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Part of the Arab–Byzantine wars | |||||||
The Battle of the Masts, as portrayed in Tārīkhunā bi-uslūb qaṣaṣī (Our History in a Narrative style), published 1935 | |||||||
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Rashidun Caliphate | Byzantine Empire | ||||||
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Muawiyah I Abu al-A'war | Constans II | ||||||
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200 ships[citation needed] | 500 ships[citation needed] | ||||||
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Light[citation needed] | Almost all[citation needed] |
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The battle was part of the earliest campaign by Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria, to reach Constantinople and is considered to be "the first decisive conflict of Islam on the deep".[1][2]