Sack of Amorium

When

5 Aug 838 – 19 Aug 838

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

39.02° N, 31.29° E

Description

historical event

838 Abbasid capture of the Eastern Roman city of Amorium

The siege of Amorium by the Abbasid Caliphate in mid-August 838 was one of the major events in the long history of the Arab–Byzantine Wars. The Abbasid campaign was led personally by the Caliph al-Mu'tasim, in retaliation to a virtually unopposed expedition launched by the Byzantine emperor Theophilos into the Caliphate's borderlands the previous year.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Siege of Amorium: The Abbasids besiege the Byzantine fortress city of Amorium, which is protected by 44 towers”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Araber erobern Amorion und töten mehrere tausend Bewohner”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “prise d’Amorium sur les Byzantins par les Abbassides”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “осада Амория”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page