Iirc it was the Abbasid Rashidun Caliphate that was the first Muslims to take over Egypt. The 1000 years prior or so, it’d been Roman territory (Byzantine after the fall of Western Rome, but same difference).
Edit: My memory was shakey and I appreciate the correction.
Is there a time period I could research for when Arab Muslims conquered Egypt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_conquest_of_Egypt
It was pretty quick, just 639 to 642. The western half of the Roman Empire had already collapsed and the eastern half wasn’t doing much better.
Thank you for the reference!
Iirc it was the
AbbasidRashidun Caliphate that was the first Muslims to take over Egypt. The1000years prior or so, it’d been Roman territory (Byzantine after the fall of Western Rome, but same difference).Edit: My memory was shakey and I appreciate the correction.
Thank you for the reference!