Sack of Amorium
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title:
Sack of Amorium
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The sack 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 (r. 833–842), in retaliation to a virtually unopposed expedition launched by the Byzantine emperor Theophilos into the Caliphate's borderlands the previous year. Mu'tasim targeted Amorium, an Eastern Roman city in western Asia Minor, because it was the birthplace of the ruling Byzantine dynasty
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Abbasid plundering and razing of the Eastern Roman city of Amorium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Amorium
date created:
2010-09-08T19:17:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T21:50:59Z
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