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read the map one more time,

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in response to reader comment: Teaching ignorant tablighees one at a time and this time the map of the last Persian/Greek war

Submitted by Guardian of Deen (United Arab Emirates), Jun 29, 2013 at 09:54

you forgot the dotted - dashed red line ...

to the readers this arrow point to palestine and the lowest point on earth

Encyclopedia Britannica whis is more academic and truthful that wikipedia stated that because of the defeat near Jerusalem and the capture of Jerusalem by the Persians as Jerusalem was very important location to the Byzantines - because of this defeat, Hiraclius did not think the Byzantine empire will ever emerge or hav a coming back after this defeat.

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