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Both Arab and Greek sources agree that it surpassed all incendiary weapons in destruction. It is also possible that Greek fire was really invented by the chemist in Constantinople who had acquired the discoveries of the Alexandrian chemical school.
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The history of Greek Fire is believed to date back to the 7th century and invented by a Byzantine engineer called Kallinikos (or Callinicus). It was first used against the Arabs at the siege of Constantinople of 673.
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"Greek fire" was a weapon employed by the Byzantines, and its nature remains as mysterious today as it was in the 7th century when it was first unleashed. ... But Greek fire was more insidious. It was projected upon enemy forces in the fashion of a flamethrower. Contemporary accounts frequently mention the mixture...
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Greek fire proper however was invented in ca. ... The chief method of deployment of Greek fire, which sets it apart from similar substances, was its projection through a tube (siphōn), for use aboard ships or in sieges. Portable projectors (cheirosiphōnes) were also invented, reputedly by Emperor Leo VI.
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Greek fire (also called Byzantine fire, wildfire and Liquid Fire , Greek Υγρό Πυρ, igró pir) was a weapon used by the Byzantine Empire , said to have been invented by a Syrian Christian Refugee named Kallinikos (Callinicus) of Heliopolis (Syria), probably about 673 . Some people believe that he acquired this ...
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“GREEK FIRE” The original Greek fire was an invention used as a weapon of the Eastern Roman Emperors. It is also said to have been invented by a Syrian engineer, one Callinicus, a refugee from Maalbek, in the seventh century. ... But they never used the term Greek fire because they claimed to be Romans,
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Greek Fire was invented in the Byzantine Empire in the mid-7th century A.D. by a man named Kallinikos. The weapon was a nozzle that propelled a stream of burning liquid that would continue burning even under water.
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