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By this date the Byzantine Empire—which once nearly ringed the Mediterranean from Italy to much of the coast of North Africa and southernmost Spain—has lost much of the eastern rim of the Mediterranean and all its North African territory to the Muslim empire, which also controls Arabia, Persia, and the Iberian peninsula.
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