Passage: As the first tide of the Muslim conquests in the Near East ebbed off, and a semi-permanent border between the two powers was established, a wide zone, unclaimed by either Byzantines or Arabs and virtually deserted (known in Arabic as al-Ḍawāḥī, "the outer lands" and in Greek as τὰ <unk>κρα, ta akra, "the extremities") began to emerge in Cilicia, along the southern approaches of the Taurus and Anti-Taurus mountain ranges, leaving in Syria Muslim and the Anatolian plateau in Byzantine hands. Passage: As the first tide of the Muslim conquests in the Near East ebbed off, and a semi-permanent border between the two powers was established, a wide zone, unclaimed by either Byzantines or Arabs and virtually deserted (known in Arabic as al-Ḍawāḥī, "the outer lands" and in Greek as τὰ <unk>κρα, ta akra, "the extremities") began to emerge in Cilicia, along the southern approaches of the Taurus and Anti-
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