What the records say
- When
- 1185
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 40.63° N, 22.95° E
- Description
- 1185 invasion of the Byzantine city by the Normans
Sack of Thessalonica (1185)
Invasion of the Byzantine city by the Normans
The sack of Thessalonica in 1185 by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “King William II of Sicily ("the Good") lands in Epirus with a Siculo-Norman expeditionary force of 200 ships and 80,000 men (including 5,000 knights) and…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page