{"id":601,"date":"2023-01-06T19:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:22:02","slug":"umayyad-caliphate-and-byzantine-empire-744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-historicos\/califato-omeya-e-imperio-bizantino-744\/","title":{"rendered":"Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantine Empire (744)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantine Empire (744)\" class=\"wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-18x9.jpg 18w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-450x233.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/0049-Califato-Omeya-e-Imperio-Bizantino-744.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This map, created by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MapPorn\/comments\/j1kez3\/the_umayyad_caliphate_at_its_peak_next_to_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Reddit user<\/a>, shows the territory controlled by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire in the year 744.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its maximum extent, the Umayyad Caliphate occupied nearly 15 million square kilometres, one tenth of the Earth's surface. After several internal wars during the caliphate of Marwan II, the empire's power gradually weakened until, with Marwan's death, it fell apart, bringing an end to the largest Islamic empire in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Byzantine Empire, meanwhile, existed until the mid-15th century. Although it never reached a size comparable to that of the Umayyad Caliphate, it did have a remarkable influence on the history of Europe and the Middle East throughout the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MapPorn\/comments\/j1kez3\/the_umayyad_caliphate_at_its_peak_next_to_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Umayyad Caliphate at its peak (next to the Byzantine Empire) in 744<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, created by a Reddit user, shows the territory controlled by the Umayyad Caliphate and by... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":651,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[10],"tags":[223,221,220,222],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-historicos","tag-223","tag-califato-omeya","tag-imperio-bizantino","tag-siglo-viii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cloud\/@mapasmilhaud\/109643658191786116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}