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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Anatolia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Overview

The news came in 345 AH that the Byzantines pushed into the people of Tarsus on the sea and killed eighteen hundred men of them. ²

What followed the raid

Ibn al-Jawzi says that they burned the villages around Tarsus and took their people captive. ²

The Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri date.

Sources

al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 672
al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p.672

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islam.museum contributors. “Byzantine Naval Raid on Tarsus in 345”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/tarsus-raid-345/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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