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Syracuse in Antiquity: History and Topography: Chapter 4: "The Four Great Sieges of Syracuse". University of South Africa Press. Govan, K. (2016) "Fortifications of Syracuse: Dionysius I, 405 to 396 BCE". University of Oregon Thesis. (Contains maps) Hoyos, Dexter (2015). Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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A full-scale civil war between Arabs and Berbers erupted in 898, and was not ended until Ibrahim II's son Abu'l-Abbas Abdallah captured Palermo in 900. [20] Abdallah also won victories against the Byzantines, until he was recalled to Ifriqiya to replace his father; Ibrahim then came to Sicily with a group of volunteers, and captured the last ...
535 – Syracuse taken by Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire. [1] 668 – 15 September: Assassination of Byzantine emperor Constans II. [7] 827-828 - Siege of Syracuse (827–828). 877–878 – Siege of Syracuse (877–878) by Aghlabid forces. [2] 1088 – Syracuse besieged by forces of Roger I of Sicily. [8] 1140 – Earthquake. [9]
Siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC), during the Sicilian Expedition; By, or in league with, the Carthaginians: Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) By the Roman Republic: Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage; By the Arab Aghlabid ...
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present
The Punic war-fleet, made up of 250 triremes and captured Greek quinqueremes, sailed into the Great Harbour at the same time and in perfect order sailed past Syracuse, displaying the spoils captured from the Greeks. 2000–3000 transports then moored in the harbour, bringing in soldiers and supplies. Himilco was ready to begin the siege.
The siege of Syracuse in 278 BC was the last attempt of Carthage to conquer the city of Syracuse. Syracuse was weakened by a civil war between Thoenon and Sostratus. The Carthaginians used this opportunity to attack and besiege Syracuse both by land and sea. Thoenon and Sostratus then appealed to king Pyrrhus of Epirus to come to the aid of ...