Amorium, also known as Amorion (Greek: Ἀμόριον), was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine...
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The sack of Amorium by the Abbasid Caliphate in mid-August 838 was one of the major events in the long history of the Arab–Byzantine Wars. The Abbasid...
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The 42 Martyrs of Amorium (Greek: οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate...
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may refer to: Amorio, Evros, a town in the Evros regional unit, Greece Amorium, an ancient city in Phrygia, near modern Emirdağ, Turkey Amori (film),...
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Empire. His armies defeated Emperor Theophilos and sacked the city of Amorium. The Amorium campaign was widely celebrated, and became a cornerstone of caliphal...
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Michael II (category People from Amorium)
death on 2 October 829, the first ruler of the Amorian dynasty. Born in Amorium, Michael was a soldier, rising to high rank along with his colleague Leo...
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Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (section Amorium campaign)
his battlefield victory over the Byzantine emperor Theophilos during the Amorium campaign. Eventually he was suspected of disloyalty and was arrested, tried...
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(general) (died 845), Byzantine general at the Sack of Amorium and one of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium Aëtius (bishop), 3rd century AD Arian bishop Aeci (Aetius)...
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strategically important fortress of Amorium, which the Arabs intended to use as a base the following winter. Amorium had been left defenceless in the turmoil...
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the two major Byzantine fortress cities of central Anatolia (Ancyra and Amorium). He mobilises a vast army (80,000 men) at Tarsus, which is divided into...
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