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Battle of Carthage | |||||||||
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Part of the Muslim conquest of North Africa and the Arab–Byzantine Wars | |||||||||
Roman Carthage was destroyed, its walls torn down, its water supply cut off and its harbours made unusable. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Umayyad Caliphate | Byzantine Empire | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Hasan ibn al-Nu'man |
Leontius Tiberius Apsimarus John the Patrician | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
40,000 | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Low | High | ||||||||
Location within Tunisia |
The Battle of Carthage was fought in 698 A.D. between a Byzantine expeditionary force and the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate. The battle was a lynchpin of the ongoing Muslim conquest of the Maghreb and put remaining Byzantine resistance to rest.