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Siege of Damascus (634)

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Image of one of the ancient gates of Damascus, the Kisan gate.

The Siege of Damascus (634) lasted from 21 August to 19 September 634 AD before the city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. Damascus was the first major city of the Byzantine (Roman) empire to fall in the Muslim conquest of Syria.

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