Regional973 CE

Battle of Amida

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Turkey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Amida (973), part of the Later Byzantine-Muslim Wars. Muslims defeated Byzantium.

Belligerents2

Muslims
Byzantine Empire

ON THE MAPAbbasid CaliphateByzantine Empire (843-1204)

Conflict graph

PART OFArab-Byzantine Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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