Muslim conquest of Armenia

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Arabic. (April 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Arabic Wikipedia article at [[:ar:الفتح الإسلامي لأرمينية]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ar|الفتح الإسلامي لأرمينية}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Muslim conquest of Armenia
Arab invasions of Byzantine Armenia in Anatolia
Date 639–661 Location Armenian highlands Result Caliphate victory
Belligerents
Rashidun Caliphate	Byzantine Empire Byzantine Armenia Sasanian Empire Sasanian Armenia Khazaria
Commanders and leaders
Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan Iyad ibn Ghanim Salman ibn Rabiah	Theodore Rshtuni  Constans II Sarvand bin Boulos   The Rumi Mauryan † Bargik tarkhan † Hazer Tarkhan † Tuman Shah
Strength
Unknown	100,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown killed 35,000 captured

The Muslim conquest of Armenia occurred in the mid-7th century, with the first Arab raids into the country occurring in 639/640. At that time, the Byzantine and Sasanian sections of Armenia had just been united under the Byzantine-aligned Armenian prince Theodore Rshtuni. Several Arab attacks and Byzantine-Armenian counterattacks occurred in the 640s. In 652, facing a renewed Arab assault, Rshtuni broke with the Byzantines and made an agreement with Mu'awiya (then governor of Syria) to accept Muslim rule. Rshtuni's death in 654 and Arab internal conflicts after 656 temporarily weakened Arab control over Armenia, but Arab rule was decisively reasserted after Mu'awiya's accession as caliph in 661.