Assertion: caliphate's territory | /r/HasProperty | controlled by byzantine
Facets:
value: in the west
type: LOCATION
value: formerly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the 7th century ce a coalition of Arab groups, some sedentary and some migratory, inside and outside the Arabian Peninsula, seized political and fiscal control in western Asia, specifically of the lands between the Nile and Oxus (Amu Darya) rivers—territory formerly controlled by the Byzantines in the west and the Sāsānians in the east.