The siege of Rometta was a successful siege of the Byzantine city of Rometta, in northeastern Sicily, by the Kalbids on behalf of the Fatimid Dynasty...

(Byzantium), and falling only in 965 to the Kalbids' Muslim army in the Siege of Rometta. Rometta borders the following municipalities: Messina, Monforte San Giorgio...

24–25 – Siege of Rometta: Nikephoros II sends an expedition to Sicily. The Byzantine army (40,000 men) is sent to break the Muslim siege at Rometta, and...

(963) Siege of Rometta (963–965) – Muslim conquest of Sicily Siege of Rome (964) Siege of Tarsus (965) – Byzantine conquest of Cilicia Siege of Mopsuestia...

Fatimid victories in the siege of Rometta and the Battle of the Straits in 964–965, the fall of Taormina marked the end of the last Byzantine footholds...

Taormina, the chief Byzantine fortress on Sicily, followed by a long siege of Rometta, the last Byzantine stronghold in the Val Demone. Nikephoros Phokas...

in Asia Minor, forcing them to lift the siege. The Byzantine victory was of major importance for the survival of the Byzantine state, as the Arab threat...

Demone and Val di Noto, and Rometta. Taormina fell to Hasan's son Ahmad on Christmas Day 962, after more than nine months of siege, and in the next year his...

di Noto, and Rometta. Taormina fell to the governor Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi on Christmas Day 962, after more than nine months of siege, and in the...

24–25 – Siege of Rometta: Nikephoros II sends an expedition to Sicily. The Byzantine army (40,000 men) is sent to break the Muslim siege at Rometta, and...

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wintering in the western coastlands of Asia Minor, the Arab army crossed into Thrace in the early summer of 717 and built siege lines to blockade the city, which...

The siege of Syracuse from 877 to 878 led to the fall of the city of Syracuse, the Byzantine capital of Sicily, to the Aghlabids. The siege lasted from...

suppressed, but the resistance of the Christians in the Siege of Rometta led the new emperor Nikephoros II Phokas to send an army of 40,000 Armenians, Thracians...

The siege of Germanicia or Marash was led by Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate during their campaigns in Anatolia in 638. The city surrendered without...

The siege of Jerusalem marked the end of the First Crusade, whose objective was Christian control of the city of Jerusalem and removing the Church of the...

The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against...

The siege of Medina was an unsuccessful Byzantine attack on the Muslim city of Medina (modern Mdina), Malta in 1053 or 1054. The Muslim inhabitants of the...

culminating in the Fatimid sack of Genoa. May 965. The Muslim conquest of Sicily is completed with the successful Siege of Rometta against the Byzantines. 969...

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...

is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate): they are divided by the presence of culpability...

of Rome, 537–538 Siege of Rome, 546 Sack of Rome, 549–550 Siege of Rometta, Siege of Romilly James Heald Jenkins Romuald I of Benevento Romuald II of...

march inland. Conquering as they went, the Norman army quickly secured Rometta, Frazzano, Centuripe and Paternò. They defeated a sizeable force belonging...

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...

714462 The siege of Emesa was laid by the forces of Rashidun Caliphate from December 635 up until March 636. This led to the Islamic conquest of Emesa, which...

seven and a half months, while on 24 August 963 Hasan laid siege to Rometta. The garrison of the latter sent for aid to Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas. The...

960s, he led the completion of the Muslim conquest of Sicily by capturing the last Byzantine strongholds of Taormina and Rometta and defeating a Byzantine...

strongholds in the Val Demone, capturing Taormina and laying siege to Rometta. Niketas was the commander of the fleet and overall commander-in-chief, while the...

coupled with the invasion of southern Syria by the Qarmatians, forced the Fatimids to lift the siege and secured Byzantine control of Antioch and northern...

723185°N 36.714462°E / 34.723185; 36.714462 The siege of Emesa in 638 was laid by a coalition force of Arab Christian tribes from Jazira which mustered...