| Sasanian conquest of Egypt | |||||||||
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| Part of the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 | |||||||||
 The Sasanian Empire at its greatest extent under rulling the Khosrow Parviz. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Byzantine Empire | Sasanian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Nicetas | Shahrbaraz[2] | ||||||||
The Sasanian conquest of Egypt took place between 618 and 621 CE, when the Sasanian Persian army defeated the Byzantine forces in Egypt and occupied the province. The fall of Alexandria, the capital of Roman Egypt, marked the first and most important stage in the Sasanian campaign to conquer this rich province, which eventually fell completely under Persian rule within a couple of years. An account of the event is given by A. J. Butler.[3]
- ^ "EGYPT iv. Relations in the Sasanian period – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
The occupation of Egypt, beginning in 619 or 618 (Altheim-Stiehl, 1991), was one of the triumphs in the last Sasanian war against Byzantium.
- ^ Howard-Johnston (2006), p. 124
- ^ A. J. Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt, (1902). Reprinted (1978) by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-821678-5