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The First Arab Siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was part of the Umayyad Caliphate's expansionist strategy towards the Byzantine Empire during the Arab–Byzantine wars. It was led by Caliph Mu'awiya I, who had emerged in 661 as the ruler of the Muslim Arab empire following a civil war. He hoped to deliver a lethal blow by capturing the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. As reported by the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, the Arab fleets secured bases along the coasts of Asia Minor in 672 and 673, and then installed a loose blockade around Constantinople. They used the peninsula of Cyzicus near the city as a base to spend the winter, and returned every spring to launch attacks against the city's fortifications. In 677 or 678 the Byzantines, under Emperor Constantine IV, destroyed the Arab navy using a new invention, the liquid incendiary substance known as Greek fire, and defeated the Arab land army in Asia Minor, ending the siege in 678. (Full article...)
Constantine, we're almost done with the blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in 2018. Thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 18:19, 13 December 2019 (UTC)