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==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[Arab–Byzantine wars#Attacks against Byzantine holdings in Africa, Sicily and the East|Arab–Byzantine War]]: The [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] army under [[Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik]] captures [[Mopsuestia]] in [[Cilicia]] from the Byzantines, and refortifies it, making it the first major [[Muslim]] stronghold in the area that will later become the ''[[Thughur]]''.<ref>{{citation | title = A History of the Byzantine State and Society | last = Treadgold | first = Warren T. | year = 1997 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = [[Stanford, CA]] | isbn = 0-8047-2630-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC | pages=337–339}}</ref><ref name="Byz703">{{cite book | editor-last=Venning | editor-first = Timothy | title = A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire | year = 2006 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | isbn = 1-4039-1774-4 | page = 189}}</ref>
* [[Musa ibn Nusayr]], governor of [[Ifriqiya]] (western [[Libya]]), builds a Muslim fleet to harass the [[Byzantine navy]] and conquer the islands of [[Ibiza]], [[Mallorca]], and [[Menorca]] (approximate date).