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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...
- The
siege 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...
- The 42
Martyrs of
Amorium (Ancient Gr****: οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a
group of
Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid...
- Empire. His
armies defeated Emperor Theophilos and
sacked the city of
Amorium. The
Amorium campaign was
widely celebrated, and
became a
cornerstone of caliphal...
- may
refer to: Amorio, Evros, a town in the
Evros regional unit,
Greece Amorium, an
ancient city in Phrygia, near
modern Emirdağ,
Turkey Amori (film),...
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returning to Syria, and that on
their way they
captured and
garrisoned Amorium. This was the
first time the
Arabs tried to hold a
captured fortress in...
- his
battlefield victory over the
Byzantine emperor Theophilos during the
Amorium campaign.
Eventually he was
suspected of
disloyalty and was arrested, tried...
-
strategically important fortress of
Amorium,
which the
Arabs intended to use as a base the
following winter.
Amorium had been left
defenceless in the turmoil...
- (general) (died 845),
Byzantine general at the Sack of
Amorium and one of the 42
Martyrs of
Amorium Aëtius (bishop), 3rd
century AD
Arian bishop Aeci (Aetius)...
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death on 2
October 829, the
first ruler of the
Amorian dynasty. Born in
Amorium,
Michael was a soldier,
rising to high rank
along with his
colleague Leo...
