Repeatedly raided by Arab forces as they continued to chip away at Byzantine territory after the failed siege of Constantinople. Irene's army sent to face an Arab invasion of Anatolia simply defected to the Muslims.
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Episode 11 (2 mentions)
Repeatedly raided by Arab forces as they continued to chip away at Byzantine territory after the failed siege of Constantinople. Irene's army sent to face an Arab invasion of Anatolia simply defected to the Muslims.
“Each year the Caliph had sent an army into Anatolia and a fleet into the Ionian Sea,”
“Faced with an Arab invasion of Anatolia, a hundred thousand strong, the army Irene sent”
Episode 13 (1 mention)
“and social structure of Anatolia.”
Episode 14 (1 mention)
“The loss of Anatolia had crippled the Empire, and without its recovery there could be no”