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    The siege of Constantinople in 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus' people (Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς) recorded in Byzantine and Western European...
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    Arab siege of Constantinople was a combined land and sea offensive in 717–718 by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the...
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    following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople was built on the...
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  • 860 – Siege of Constantinople (860). 869 – A portion of the walls collapses in an earthquake. 870 – Fourth Council of Constantinople (Catholic Church)...
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    source needed] 866 (6374): The Siege of Constantinople (860) by Rus' forces. According to Byzantine sources, this happened in 860, not 866. 881/2 (6390): Rurik's...
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  • raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the territory of Kievan Rus'. Following the disintegration of Kievan Rus', the emergence of the Principality...
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    Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330. Following the collapse of the...
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    the summer of 860, during the emperor's campaign against the Arabs, Siege of Constantinople has undertaken Rus' people under the command of Kiev princes...
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    Normanist Controversy Encyclopedia of Ukraine - The name of Rus’ Garipzanov (2006, p. 7) Siege of Constantinople (860): The Rus' First Strike on Byzantium...
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    effect: its presence on the walls of Constantinople dispersed an Avar siege in 626, an Arab siege in 718 and a Rus' siege in 860. The reliquary was used in certain...
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    Thingmen (category Military units and formations of the Middle Ages)
    recruiting Scandinavian troops: Novgorod-Kiev (Kievan Rus') c. 980–1060, Constantinople (the Varangian Guard) 988–1204, and England 1018–1051. Scandinavia was...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This is a List of battles from 301 A.D...
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    height during the medieval period. Siege towers were used when the Avars laid siege unsuccessfully to Constantinople in 626, as the Chronicon Paschale...
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    on Constantinople itself. The repulsion of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople (717–718) was a major Byzantine success. Consider to be one of history's...
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  • Arab–Byzantine wars Battle of Mauropotamos – 844 – Arab–Byzantine wars Siege of Constantinople (860) – 860 – Rus'–Byzantine War Capture of Faruriyyah – 862 –...
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  • member of the embassy sent to the khagan of the Avars on 2 August 626, at the start of the Avar siege of Constantinople. Following the withdrawal of the...
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    The siege of Trebizond was the successful siege of the city of Trebizond, capital of the Empire of Trebizond, by the Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II, which...
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    Philosophical Society. p. 860. ISBN 9780871691620. Balbi, Verdadera Relacion, fol.51 Bruce Ware Allen (2015). The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between...
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    siegecraft and could construct trebuchets and siege towers. In their siege of Constantinople, they constructed walls of circumvallation to prevent easy counterattack...
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    was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the...
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    appeared near Constantinople for the first time in 860, constituted another new challenge. In 941 they appeared on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, but...
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    La Géographie ecclésiastique de l'Empire byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol. : Les Églises et les Monastères...
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    Battering ram (redirect from Siege Ram)
    by the Romans The Crusades The Sack of Rome (410) The various sieges of Constantinople There is a popular myth in Gloucester, England that the well known...
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  • because of his support for Patriarch Ignatios of Constantinople, who had been removed from his post in favor of Photius I. Since the seventeenth century, Nicholas...
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    is an encyclical letter of Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, datable to early 867. Referencing the Rus'-Byzantine War of 860, Photius informs the Oriental...
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  • 717–718 Second Siege of Constantinople 722–1492 Reconquista 719–759 Umayyad invasion of Gaul 735–737 Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia 759 Byzantine-Bulgarian...
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    late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. From the 3rd to 6th centuries, the Greek East and Latin West of the Roman Empire gradually diverged...
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    John VI (838–842) Sergius I (842–844) vacant (844–855) Solomon (855–860) vacant (860–862) Theodosius (862–878) Elias III (878–907) Sergius II (908–911)...
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    assault on Constantinople, as are the Prince Islands, by the Ottoman fleet under Admiral Baltaoglu. April 6–May 29 – Siege and Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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