- ("Castle of the Moat"). 3.
Chándax (Χάνδαξ) / Chándakas (Χάνδακας): The
Arabic name rabḍ al-ḫandaq was ****enized to Χάνδαξ (
Chándax) or Χάνδακας (Chándakas)...
- The
siege of
Chandax in 960-961 was the
centerpiece of the
Byzantine Empire's
campaign to
recover the
island of
Crete which since the 820s had been ruled...
- the
north coast, at Suda Bay or near
where their main city and
fortress Chandax (Arabic: ربض الخندق, romanized: rabḍ al-kḫandaq, lit. 'Castle of the Moat'...
- near Almyros. He soon
began a nine-month
siege of the
fortress town of
Chandax,
where his
forces suffered through the
winter due to
supply issues. Following...
- Ηράκλειο, Irákleio), both the city and the
island became known as Χάνδαξ (
Chandax) or Χάνδακας (Chandakas),
which gave Latin, Italian, and
Venetian Candia...
-
stormed Chandax,
restoring Crete to Byzantium.
After the reconquest, the
island was
organized as a
regular theme, with a
strategos based at
Chandax. Extensive...
-
besieged the city of
Chandax, the
capital of the
Arabs in Crete. The
Byzantines faced difficulties during the siege. The
walls of
Chandax were
heavily fortified...
- the
initial Muslim resistance. A long
siege of the emirate's
capital of
Chandax followed,
which dragged over the
winter into 961. The city was finally...
-
During the
ninth century AD the
local po****tion
shifted to the new town of
Chandax (modern Heraklion). By the
thirteenth century, it was
called the Makruteikhos...
- the last Emir of Crete, Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb.
Following the
Siege of
Chandax and the
reconquest of
Crete by the Byzantines,
Anemas and his
father were...
