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Having achieved a decisive victory against the Sasanids at the Battle of Ninevah in December 627, Byzantine emperor Heraclius I is able to end a war that has continued off and on for decades. Khosrow II is deposed and executed. The Byzantines recover all the territory conquered by the Sasanids, which includes Jerusalem and Alexandria, as well as the Holy Cross.
After the surrender of Mecca to a Muslim force, the Prophet appoints his first resident governor away from Medina, thus making the Muslim polity a territorial state and establishing the practice of making an annual pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca from Medina.
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