- Amorium, also
known as
Amorion (Gr****: Ἀμόριον), was a city in Phrygia, Asia
Minor which was
founded in the ****enistic period,
flourished under the Byzantine...
-
Amorio (Gr****: Αμόριο, romanized: Amório, IPA: [aˈmoɾi.o]) is a
village in the muni****l unit of Orfeas,
northeastern Evros, Greece. It is
situated at...
- monk from the
Byzantine Empire. He was born in the mid-9th
century in
Amorion,
Anatolic Theme. He
studied in
Constantinople and was
ordained a deacon...
- Sebaste,
martyred in 316.
Saint Blaise may also
refer to:
Saint Blaise of
Amorion (died 908)
Blaise of
Caesarea Cappadociae a.k.a.
Blaise the Herdsman, an...
- 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...
-
Byzantine emperor Theophilos's
successes the
previous year, and
aimed to sack
Amorion, one of Byzantium's
largest cities.
Theophilos with his army confronted...
- al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842) was devastating, as was most
humiliating in the Sack of
Amorion in 838, the
ancestral home of Theophilos'
Amorian dynasty.
Internal strife...
-
mention an iron gate that
originally was part of the
Byzantine city of
Amorion before being carried off to
Samarra in 838
after the
Abbasids captured...
- present-day Iran), and
being left
behind as his father's
deputy during the
Amorion campaign of the same year. Al-Wathiq is then
mentioned in 841 as bringing...
- Beser, was
killed in the attack.
Constantine escaped and
sought refuge in
Amorion,
where he was
welcomed by the
local soldiers, who had been
commanded by...
