Amr 6 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VII |
Dates | 640 (taq) / 664 (ob.) |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Locations | Barca (Libya); Egypt; Egypt (officeplace); Alexandria (Egypt) |
Textual Sources | Elias Barshinaya, Chronicle (Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni, Opus chronologicum, pars prior, ed. and tr. E. W. Brooks, CSCO 62 and CSCO 63 (1910) (chronicle) |
In AH 20 (Dec. 640/Dec. 641) = 952 Sel. (640/641) 'Amr ibn 'As (Amr 6) captured Alexandria and Egypt: Elias, Chron., p. 133, 26 - p. 134, 2 = p. 65. In AH 21 (Dec. 641/Nov. 642) = 953 Sel. (641/642) 'Amr ibn 'As captured the city of Barka (Ptolemais, in Libya): Elias, Chron., p. 134, 10-14 = p. 65. He died in AH 43 (April 663/April 664) = 974 Sel. (662/663), at the end of Ramadan (Dec. 663/Jan. 664): Elias, Chron., p. 142, 6-12 = p. 68. Cf. also PLRE III, pp. 58-9 with references.
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