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  • Sack of Amorium
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Strength
  • 80000(xsd:integer)
  • ca. 40,000 in the field army, ca. 30,000 in Amorium
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Partof
  • the Arab–Byzantine Wars
Date
  • August 838
Commander
Align
  • right
Width
  • 260(xsd:integer)
BGCOLOR
  • #c6dbf7
Casualties
  • 30000(xsd:integer)
  • Unknown
Result
  • City taken and razed by the Abbasids
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Place
Source
  • Excerpt from Abu Tammam's Ode on the Conquest of Amorium.
Conflict
  • Sack of Amorium
Quote
  • You have left the fortunes of the sons of Islam in the ascendant, and the polytheists and the abode of polytheism in decline."
  • O day of the battle of 'Ammūriya, hopes have returned from you overflowing with honey-sweet milk;
  • "A victory in honour of which the gates of heaven open and earth comes forth in her new garments.
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