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Battle of Ajnadayn
| Battle of Ajnadayn | |||||||||
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| Part of the Muslim conquest of Syria (Arab–Byzantine wars) | |||||||||
 Wadi al-Simt valley (pictured in 2014), identified as the battlefield of Ajnadayn | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Byzantine Empire | Rashidun Caliphate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Vardan † Theodore |
Khalid ibn al-Walid Amr ibn al-As Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah Shurahbil ibn Hasana Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan Ubadah ibn al-Samit Dhiraar ibn al-Azwar | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Max. 40,000[2] – c. 60,000[3] | Max. 10,000[2] – c. 20,000[3] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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50,000 (Al-Waqidi),[4] Modern estimates unknown. |
575 (Al-Waqidi)[4] Modern estimates unknown. | ||||||||
The Battle of Ajnadayn (Arabic: معركة أجنادين) was fought in July or August 634 (Jumada I or II, 13 AH),[2] in a location close to Beit Guvrin in the Roman-era Palestine region (present-day Israel); it was the first major pitched battle between the Byzantine (Roman) Empire and the army of the Arab Rashidun Caliphate. The result of the battle was a decisive Muslim victory. The details of this battle are mostly known through Muslim sources, such as the ninth-century historian al-Waqidi.
- ^ Irfan Shahid (1996). Review of Walter E. Kaegi (1992), Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests. Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (4), p. 784.
- ^ a b c Gibb 1986, p. 208.
- ^ a b Morray 2001, pp. 23–24.
- ^ a b Lieutenant-General Agha Ibrahim Akram (1970). The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns, page 467. Nat. Publishing House. Rawalpindi. ISBN 978-0-7101-0104-4.
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