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class="first_toc_column"><div class="first_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Introduction</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>3</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Armenia and Africa the formative years</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>21</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Internal and external challenges in the first decade of the reign</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>60</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Taking the offensive</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>102</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Peril and hope</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>124</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>The invasion of Mesopotamia</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>158</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Five crucial years a narrow window of opportunity</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>194</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="second_toc_column"><div class="second_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Tested again</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>231</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Losing control</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>267</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Conclusions</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>302</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Chronological table</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>326</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td 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href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Analecta+Avarica&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Analecta Avarica</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Anastase+le+Perse&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Anastase le Perse</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Anastasios&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Anastasios</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Anatolia&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Anatolia</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Antioch&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Antioch</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Arabs&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Arabs</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Armenian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Armenian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Avars&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Avars</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Balkans&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Balkans</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=battle&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>battle</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Boor&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Boor</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Byzantine+armies&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Byzantine armies</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Byzantine+military&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Byzantine military</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Byzantine+territory&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Byzantine territory</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Byzantium&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Byzantium</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=campaign&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>campaign</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Carthage&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Carthage</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Christian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Chron&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Chron</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Chronicle&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Chronicle</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Chronicon+Paschale&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud1"><span dir=ltr>Chronicon Paschale</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=church&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>church</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=commanders&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>commanders</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Constantine+VII&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Constantine VII</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Constantinople&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud1"><span dir=ltr>Constantinople</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=contemporary&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>contemporary</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Cross&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Cross</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=defeat&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>defeat</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=defense&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>defense</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Doctrina+Jacobi&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Doctrina Jacobi</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=east&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>east</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=ecclesiastical&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>ecclesiastical</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Edessa&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Edessa</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Egypt&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Egypt</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Emperor+Heraclius&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Emperor Heraclius</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Emperor+Maurice&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Emperor Maurice</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=empire&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>empire</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Festugi%C3%A8re&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Festugi猫re</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Flusin&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Flusin</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=forces&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>forces</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=George+of+Pisidia&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>George of Pisidia</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Gugerotti&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Gugerotti</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Heraclian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Heraclian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Heraclius+Constantine&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Heraclius Constantine</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Heraclius+probably&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Heraclius probably</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Heraclius+the+Elder&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Heraclius the Elder</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Heraclius+the+Younger&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Heraclius the Younger</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Hist&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Hist</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=historian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>historian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=holy&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>holy</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=imperial&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>imperial</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=invasion&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>invasion</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Islam&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Islam</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Jerusalem&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Jerusalem</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Jews&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" 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href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=late&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>late</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Mango&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Mango</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Mango-Scott&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Mango-Scott</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Martina&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Martina</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Mesopotamia&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Mesopotamia</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Michael+the+Syrian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Michael the Syrian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Nikephoros&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Nikephoros</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Nineveh&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Nineveh</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=northern+Syria&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>northern Syria</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Palestine&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Patriarch+Sergios&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Patriarch Sergios</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Persians&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud0"><span dir=ltr>Persians</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Pertusi&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Pertusi</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Philagrios&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Philagrios</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Philippikos&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Philippikos</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Phokas&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Phokas</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=PLRE&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>PLRE</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Priskos&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Priskos</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=region&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>region</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=relics&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>relics</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=religious&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>religious</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=reportedly&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>reportedly</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Roman&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Roman</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Saint+Anastase&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Saint Anastase</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&q=Sasanian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Sasanian</span></a> <a 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He is the author of many books, including Byzantium and the Decline of Rome (1968), Byzantine Military Unrest 471-843 (1981), Army, Society and Religion in Byzantium (1982), Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy (1983), and Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (1992, paperback 1995). </div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class="about_title">Bibliographic information</h3><div class="about_content" id="metadata_content" style="padding-bottom:.3em"><div class="metadata_sectionwrap"><table id="metadata_content_table"><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label">Title</td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Author</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Walter+E.+Kaegi%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=7"><span dir=ltr>Walter E. 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