Battle of Vescera

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Battles and Sieges of the
Byzantine-Arab Wars

Early battles
Mu'ta - Tabuk - Dathin - Firaz

Arab conquest of the Levant
Qartin - Bosra - Adschnadain - Marj al-Rahit - Fahl - Damascus - Marj ad Dibadsch - Emesa - Yarmouk - Jerusalem - Hazir - Aleppo

Muslim conquest of Egypt
Heliopolis - Alexandria - Nikiou

Umayyad conquest of North Africa
Sufetula - Vescera - Carthage

Umayyadidische invasion of Anatolia
and Constantinople
Iron bridge - Germanikeia - 1. Konstantin Opel - Sebastopolis - Tyana - 2. Konstantin Opel - Nicaea - Akroinon

Arabic-Byzantine border war
Kamacha - Kopidnadon - Krasos - Anzen and Amorion - Mauropotamos - Lalakaon - Bathys Ryax

Sicily and Southern Italy
1st Syracuse - 2nd Syracuse - Campaigns of the Maniac

Byzantine counter-attack
Marasch - Raban - Andrassos - Campaigns of Nikephoros Phokas - Campaigns of John Tzimiskes - Orontes - Campaigns of Basil II. - Azaz Sea

operations
Phoinix - Muslim Conquest of Crete - Thasos - Damiette - Thessalonike - Byzantine reconquest of Crete


The battle of Vescera (today's Biskra in Algeria ) was fought in either 682 or 683 between the Berbers under King Kusaila and their Byzantine allies from the exarchate of Carthage and the Arab Umayyad army under Uqba ibn Nafi (the founder of Kairouan ). Uqba ibn Nafi had led his army on a campaign through North Africa to the Atlantic , he even marched as far as the Draa and the Sous in the south. On his march back north, he was surprised, defeated and killed by a Berber-Byzantine army near Tahuda south of Vescera. This victory enabled the Byzantines to keep the Arabs out of what is now Tunisia for another decade .

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