Siege of Syracuse (827–828)

Early battles Mu'tah - Tabouk - Dathin - Firaz - Arab conquest of the Levant - Qarteen - Bosra - Ajnadayn - Marj al - Rahit - Fahl - Damascus - Maraj -al- DEBAJ - Emesa - Yarmouk - Jerusalem - Hazir - Aleppo - Arab conquest of Egypt - Heliopolis - Alexandria - Nikiou - Umayyad conquest of North Africa - Sufetula - Vescera - Carthage - Umayyadidische invasion of Anatolia and Constantinople - Iron Bridge - Germanikeia - 1 Konstantin Opel - Sebastopolis - Tyana - 2nd Konstantin Opel - Nicaea - Akroinon - Arab- Byzantine frontier war - Kamacha - Kopidnadon - Krasos - Anzen and Amorion - Mauropotamos - Lalakaon - Bathys Ryax - Sicily and Southern Italy - 1 Syracuse - Syracuse 2 - campaigns of Maniakes - Byzantine counter-attack - Marash - Raban - Andrassos - Campaigns of Nikephoros Phokas - campaigns of John Tzimiskes - Orontes - campaigns of Basil II - Azaz - naval operations - Phoinix - Muslim conquest of Crete - Thasos - Damietta - Thessalonike - Byzantine reconquest of Crete

The siege of Syracuse in 827-828 was the first attempt of Aghlabids, the city of Syracuse in Sicily to take, then a Byzantine province. The aghlabdische army was only a few months earlier landed on the island, officially to support the Byzantine rebels Euphemios. After they defeated the local militia and the fortress Mazara had occupied, they marched to Syracuse, which had been the capital of the island since Roman times. The siege lasted a year. The besiegers suffered at this time from lack of food, also broke out an epidemic that claimed the lives of one of the two generals, Asad ibn al - Furat. Given Byzantine relief force Muhammad ibn Abi'l - Jawari decided to raise the siege and retreat to the southwest, which they had occupied. From there, they continued to pursue the goal of the Arab conquest of the island. According to another long siege in the years 877-878 and the fall of Taormina 902 this goal should be a reality.