What the records say
- When
- 27 Dec 962
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 36.20° N, 37.15° E
- Description
- capture and destruction of the city in 962
Sack of Aleppo (962)
Capture and destruction of the city in 962 CE
The sack of Aleppo in December 962 was carried out by the Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros Phokas. Aleppo was the capital of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla, the Byzantines' chief antagonist at the time.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Arab–Byzantine wars – Sack of Aleppo: A Byzantine expeditionary force under General Nikephoros Phokas invades northern Syria, and sacks Aleppo, capital of the…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “успешная осада Алеппо столицы Хамданидов”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page