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Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire
Sasanian Persian Empire
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The Persian Conquest of Egypt

618 – 621 · Egypt Theater

Persian victory; Egypt and its grain lost; the empire near collapse.

618 – 621

The Persians completed their conquest of the Roman East by overrunning Egypt, taking the great city of Alexandria and the empire's richest province by 621. With Egypt fell the grain supply that fed Constantinople itself.

  • The Persian Conquest of Egypt

Commanders

Sasanian Persian Empire · General Shahrbaraz
Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire · Byzantine forces of Egypt