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The 13 pages that link to Heraclius, each with the reason it gives.

• Byzantine EmpireRelated: His reign marked both a dramatic military recovery and a profound territorial shift.

• Roman–Persian WarsRelated: His campaigns reversed Persian gains but left Byzantium depleted.

• Byzantine themesRelated: His reign coincided with the military and territorial crises surrounding the themes’ early development.

• Khosrow IIRelated: His campaigns turned Khosrow's conquests into a costly strategic defeat.

• Muslim conquest of the LevantRelated: His empire lost Syria and Palestine during the campaigns of his reign.

• Byzantine diplomacyRelated: His rule shows diplomacy operating amid existential military conflict.

• Eastern Roman EmpireRelated: His reign marks a major transition in the empire’s territory, army, and official language.

• Muslim conquest of EgyptRelated: His government faced the Muslim invasion while still rebuilding imperial control.

• KhazarsRelated: That alliance helped establish the political connections from which Khazar-Byzantine relations developed.

• Battle of Mu'tahRelated: His reign provides the imperial context for Muslim-Byzantine contact in the region.

• Constans IINarrower topic: Heraclius was Constans's grandfather and predecessor, whose losses framed the younger emperor's reign.

• Byzantine–Sasanian WarRelated: His campaigns transformed a near-collapse into a Byzantine recovery.

• Pope Honorius IRelated: His court backed the theological compromise that formed the political setting for Honorius’s correspondence.