Kasar Siriya ta kasance karkashin mulkin Rum tsawon karni bakwai kafin mamayar Larabawa musulmi, kuma Farisawa Sassanid sun mamaye kasar a lokuta da dama a cikin karni na 3, 6 da 7;Har ila yau, ya fuskanci farmaki daga abokan Sassanid na Larabawa, Lakhmids.A lokacin zamanin Romawa, ya fara bayan faduwar Urushalima a shekara ta 70, dukan yankin ( Yahudiya , Samariya, da Galili) an sake masa suna Palaestina.A lokacin karshen yakin Roman-Persian, wanda ya fara a cikin 603, Farisa karkashin Khosrau II sun yi nasarar mamaye Siriya, Falasdinu daMasar fiye da shekaru goma kafin nasarar Heraclius ya tilasta musu su kammala zaman lafiya na 628. Don haka, a kan jajibirin yakar musulmi Romawa (ko Rumawa kamar yadda masana tarihi na yamma na zamani suke magana akan Romawa na wannan zamani) har yanzu suna kan aikin sake gina ikonsu a wadannan yankuna, wanda a wasu yankunan ya yi hasarar kusan shekaru ashirin.Sarkin Rumawa (Romawa) Sarkin Heraclius, bayan da ya sake kwace Syria daga hannun Sassaniyawa, ya kafa sabbin layukan tsaro daga Gaza zuwa kudu da bakin Tekun Gishiri.An tsara waɗannan layukan ne kawai don kare hanyoyin sadarwa daga 'yan fashi, kuma yawancin kariyar Byzantine sun ta'allaka ne a Arewacin Siriya da ke fuskantar abokan gaba na gargajiya, Farisa Sassanid.Abin da ya jawo wannan layin tsaro shi ne yadda ya baiwa musulmin da suke fitowa daga hamadar kudanci damar isa arewacin Gaza kafin su hadu da sojojin Rumawa na yau da kullum.