Sack of Amorium
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 (reigned 833–842), in retaliation to a virtually unopposed expedition launched by the Byzantine emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842) into the Caliphate's borderlands the previous year. Mu'tasim targeted Amorium, a Byzantine city in western Asia Minor (modern Anatolia), because it was the birthplace of the ruling Byzantine dynasty and, at the time, one of Byzantium's largest and most important cities. The caliph gathered an exceptionally large army, which he divided in two parts, which invaded from the northeast and the south. The northeastern army defeated the Byzantine forces under Theophilos
Sack of Amorium
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 (reigned 833–842), in retaliation to a virtually unopposed expedition launched by the Byzantine emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842) into the Caliphate's borderlands the previous year. Mu'tasim targeted Amorium, a Byzantine city in western Asia Minor (modern Anatolia), because it was the birthplace of the ruling Byzantine dynasty and, at the time, one of Byzantium's largest and most important cities. The caliph gathered an exceptionally large army, which he divided in two parts, which invaded from the northeast and the south. The northeastern army defeated the Byzantine forces under Theophilos
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Die Plünderung von Amorion dur ...... h dem Tod des Kaisers 842 bei.
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El saqueo de Amorio (también c ...... a muerte de Teófilo en el 842.
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Il sacco di Amorio avvenuto a ...... lta spentosi Teofilo nell'842.
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Le sac d’Amorium par le califa ...... s la mort de Théophile en 842.
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O saque de Amório (ou cerco de ...... pós a morte de Teófilo em 842.
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The Sack of Amorium by the Abb ...... ter Theophilos's death in 842.
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Осада Амория — один из важнейш ...... сле смерти Феофила в 842 году.
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معركة عمورية كانت بين الخلافة ...... لأسرة العمورية وثاني أباطرتها.
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アモリオンの戦いは838年にアッバース朝と東ローマ帝国との間で行われた戦いである。
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30,000–70,000 military and civilian dead
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Abbasid Caliphate
Byzantine Empire
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City taken and razed by theAbbasids
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ca. 40,000 in the field army, ca. 30,000 in Amorium
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"A victory in honour of which ...... mes forth in her new garments.
O day of the battle of 'Ammūri ...... flowing with honey-sweet milk;
You have left the fortunes of ...... ode of polytheism in decline."
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Excerpt from Abu Tammam's Ode on the Conquest of Amorium.
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Die Plünderung von Amorion dur ...... igsten Städte des Reiches war.
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El saqueo de Amorio (también c ...... sia Menor mientras que la otra
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Il sacco di Amorio avvenuto a ...... divise in due parti. Il gross
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Le sac d’Amorium par le califa ...... e à Anzen. Les troupes abbassi
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O saque de Amório (ou cerco de ...... etrou profundamente em territó
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The Sack of Amorium by the Abb ...... antine forces under Theophilos
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Осада Амория — один из важнейш ...... мя император Феофил (829—842).
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معركة عمورية كانت بين الخلافة ...... لأسرة العمورية وثاني أباطرتها.
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アモリオンの戦いは838年にアッバース朝と東ローマ帝国との間で行われた戦いである。
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Plünderung von Amorion
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Sac d'Amorium
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Sacco di Amorio
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Sack of Amorium
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Saque de Amório
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Saqueo de Amorio
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Осада Амория
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معركة عمورية
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アモリオンの戦い
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Sack of Amorium
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