- Cappadocia. In
Byzantine times, it was
known as
Sozopetra (Σωζόπετρα) and
Zapetra (Ζάπετρα,
Zibatra in Arabic).
Significant improvements in the
fruit industry...
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Upper Euphrates around Melitene,
where they
brutally sacked the city of
Zapetra (Ζάπετρα) or
Sozopetra (Σωζόπετρα). In
September of the same year, some...
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importance in the
Mesopotamian sector were Salaghus, Kaisum, Ḥiṣn Zibaṭra (Gr.
Zapetra/Sozopetra), Sumaisaṭ (Gr. Samosata), Ḥiṣn
Qalawdhiya and Ḥiṣn Ziyad. Some...
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defeats in
Cappadocia followed by the
destruction of Melitene,
Samosata and
Zapetra by
vengeful Byzantine troops in 837. Al-Mu'tasim
however gained the upper...
- of
Zapetra and Arsamosata. This campaign, however, and the
atrocities committed by the Byzantines'
former Khurramite troops after the fall of
Zapetra, provoked...
