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Sayf al-Dawla captures the Domesticos

أسر الدمستق على يد سيف الدولة

c. October 953 CE · Rabi' II 342 AH

In Rabi' II 342 word came of Sayf al-Dawla's raid: plunder, captives, and Constantine the Domesticos taken; in 343 a great battle cost the Domesticos many of his men and patrician chiefs 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Anatolia
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940950960970 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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In Rabi' II 342 word came of a raid by Sayf al-Dawla — plunder, killing, captives, and Constantine the Domesticos taken prisoner; and in 343 word came of a great battle between the Domesticos and Sayf al-Dawla in which many of the Domesticos' men and the chiefs of his patricians were killed 1.

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علي بن عبد الله بن حمدان سيف الدولة

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Byzantine capture of Aleppo· Battle of Sayf al-Dawla with the Domesticus in 343· Sayf al-Dawla's disaster in Byzantine lands· علي بن عبد الله بن حمدان سيف الدولة

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  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 664, 666
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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.