Siege of Constantinople 717–718: The Entire Story of The Battle That Failed to Break an Empire

Siege of Constantinople 717–718: The Entire Story of The Battle That Failed to Break an Empire #ThronewakeAtlas #SiegeOfConstantinople #Constantinople717 #ByzantineEmpire =========================== In 717, one of the largest military expeditions of the early medieval world arrived outside Constantinople with a single objective: destroy the last great stronghold of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Umayyad commander Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik brought a massive land army and fleet against a city weakened by decades of war, territorial losses, political instability and civil conflict. On paper, Constantinople should have fallen. Instead, the siege became a year-long struggle of walls, naval warfare, Greek fire, winter, broken supply lines, defections and unexpected alliances. In this episode of Thronewake Atlas, discover: • Why the Umayyad Caliphate targeted Constantinople in 717 • How Emperor Leo III prepared the city for survival • Why the Theodosian Walls were so difficult to defeat • How the Umayyad fleet attempted to blockade the Bosporus • What Greek fire actually did during the siege • Why Constantinople remained connected to the sea • How the brutal winter of 717–718 weakened the besieging army • Why sailors from the reinforcement fleet changed sides • How the Bulgars added pressure from behind the Umayyad lines • Why Maslama’s campaign ultimately failed • What the survival of Constantinople meant for the Eastern Roman Empire The siege did not end the centuries-long conflict between the Roman Empire and the Caliphate. But it did something just as important. It bought Constantinople time. And the empire behind its walls survived for centuries afterward. Subscribe to Thronewake Atlas for cinematic documentaries about emperors, forgotten wars, sieges, ancient kingdoms, military strategy and the turning points that reshaped history. --------------------------------------- Siege of Constantinople 717 718, Constantinople 717, Constantinople 718, Siege of Constantinople, Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, Leo III, Leo the Third, Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, Maslama, Umayyad Caliphate, Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantine history, Roman Empire history, Greek fire, Theodosian Walls, Constantinople siege documentary, Arab Byzantine wars, Umayyad Byzantine war, medieval siege warfare, medieval military history, ancient Constantinople, history of Constantinople, Byzantine military history, Islamic history, Umayyad history, early medieval history, medieval battles, historical battles, siege warfare, Bosporus, Constantinople walls, Battle for Constantinople, history documentary, military history documentary, Thronewake Atlas