Siege of Taormina information

Siege of Taormina may refer to: Siege of Taormina (962), Fatimid conquest of Sicily Siege of Taormina (1078) Siege of Taormina (1676) This disambiguation...

Siege of Montefeltro (961) Siege of Taormina (962) – Muslim conquest of Sicily Siege of Monte Sancti Leonis (962–963) Siege of Verim (963) Siege of Rometta...

Taormina dates to around 396 BC after Dionysius I of Syracuse destroyed nearby Naxos in 403 BC and the Siculi formed a new settlement on the nearby Mount...

siege to Taormina, he marched to Messina in 902 and ferried his army across the straits to Calabria. Ibrahim, however, got bogged down laying siege to...

Katakalon 902 – Siege of Taormina – The former Aghlabid emir, Ibrahim II, captures the fortress of Taormina 904 Sack of Thessalonica 915 Battle of Garigliano...

the siege of Taormina in 1079 and, in 1081, with Robert of Sourdeval (or Sourval) and Elias Cartomi (a Saracen turncoat), he retook the city of Catania...

960. Two years later a revolt in Taormina was bloodily suppressed, but the resistance of the Christians in the Siege of Rometta led the new emperor Nikephoros...

Arab–Byzantine wars Siege of Taormina (962) – 962 – Muslim conquest of Sicily (Arab–Byzantine wars) Siege of Rometta – 963 – 965 – Muslim conquest of Sicily (Arab–Byzantine...

The Muslim conquest of Sicily began in June 827 and lasted until 902, when the last major Byzantine stronghold on the island, Taormina, fell. Isolated fortresses...

conclusion of the Muslim conquest of Sicily. The siege was led by the two Kalbid cousins al-Hasan ibn Ammar and Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi. In 962, Taormina was...

Fatimid forces proceeded to capture Taormina, the chief Byzantine fortress on Sicily, followed by a long siege of Rometta, the last Byzantine stronghold...

The siege of Enna or Castrogiovanni was launched by the Aghlabids against the important Byzantine city of Enna in 859. The Aghlabid forces managed to...

The siege of Messina was launched by the Aghlabids, allied with the Neapolitans, against the Byzantine city of Messina from 842 to 843. The Allied forces...

Sicily from the Fatimids. The fall of Taormina to the Aghlabids in 902 marked the effective end of the Muslim conquest of Sicily, but the Byzantines retained...