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Battle of Sayf al-Dawla with the Domesticus in 343

وقعة سيف الدولة مع الدمستق سنة 343

954 CE · 343 AH

In 343 word came of a great battle between the Byzantine Domesticus and Sayf al-Dawla in which many of the Domesticus's men and the chiefs of his patrikioi were killed 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Overview

News came in 343 AH of a great battle between the Domestikos, the Byzantine commander, and Sayf al-Dawla. A great number of the Domestikos's men and the chiefs of his patricians were killed in it. 2

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علي بن عبد الله بن حمدان سيف الدولة

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Byzantine capture of Aleppo· Sayf al-Dawla's disaster in Byzantine lands· Sayf al-Dawla captures the Domesticos· علي بن عبد الله بن حمدان سيف الدولة

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 668
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p.668
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Byzantine capture of Aleppo

In 351 the Domesticos stormed Aleppo while Sayf al-Dawla lay unprepared — the sortie destroyed, the Darayin palace plundered of three hundred purses of dirhams, a breach opened, the city put to the sword till the killers wearied; fifteen hundred Muslim prisoners freed themselves and fought back, fifteen thousand youths were taken captive, mosques burned. Nine days on, the emperor's nephew dead at the citadel gate, the Byzantines withdrew slaughtering their Muslim prisoners.