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Regional838 CE

Battle of Amorium

Turkey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Amorium (838), part of the Byzantine Muslim Wars. Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantium. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

  • Abbasid Caliphate
  • Byzantine Empire

ON THE MAPAbbasid CaliphateByzantine Empire (750-843)

Conflict graph

PART OFArab-Byzantine Wars

Sources

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

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