Sack of Thessalonica

When

904

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

40.65° N, 22.90° E

Description

904 sack

Part of the Arab-Byzantine Wars

The sack of Thessalonica was the capture and subsequent sack of the Byzantine city of Thessalonica by the Abbasid Caliphate and Tulunids in the year 904, led by Leo of Tripoli, a privateer and Muslim convert.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sack of Thessalonica: A Muslim fleet, led by the Greek renegade Leo of Tripoli”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sarazen korsanlar tarafından Selanik yağmalandı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Thessaloniki wird von Sarazenen erobert”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Осада Салоник и разграбление византийского города Фессалоники абассидскими войсками под командованием Льва Триполийского”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page