Jerusalem's Tributes

Just four years after heraclius glorious journey to jerusalem with the sacred true cross, an arab invaders from the south invaded the levent. This was the first major incursion into byzantine lands by the moslems who had formed under the prophet mohammed deep in the lands of arabia earlier in the century. The highly admired caliph umar took control of the rashudan caliphate and launched a series of cessful attacks on both empires. And it is said that, despite the islamic conquest of jer Jerusalem, caliph Umar paid an amount of respect to the christian church of the holy sepulchre which signalled his intention to display