Sea Battle of Thasos
Map of the Byzantine-Arab naval battles, 7. – 11. century
| date | October 829 |
|---|---|
| place | at Thasos |
| output | Arab victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
Byzantine-Arab Wars
Early battles
Mu'ta - Tabuk - Dathin - Firaz
Arab conquest of the Levant
Qartin - Bosra - Adschnadain - Marj al-Rahit - Fahl - Damascus - Marj ad Dibadsch - Emesa - Yarmouk - Jerusalem - Hazir - Aleppo
Muslim 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 - 2. Konstantin Opel - Nicaea - Akroinon
Arabic-Byzantine border war
Kamacha - Kopidnadon - Krasos - Anzen and Amorion - Mauropotamos - Lalakaon - Bathys Ryax
Sicily and Southern Italy
1st Syracuse - 2nd Syracuse - Campaigns of the Maniac
Byzantine counter-attack
Marasch - Raban - Andrassos - Campaigns of Nikephoros Phokas - Campaigns of John Tzimiskes - Orontes - Campaigns of Basil II. - Azaz Sea
operations
Phoinix - Muslim Conquest of Crete - Thasos - Damiette - Thessalonike - Byzantine reconquest of Crete
The naval battle of Thasos took place in October 829 between the Byzantine fleet and the fleet of the Emirate of Crete . The Arabs achieved a great victory: Theophanes Continuatus reports that almost the entire imperial fleet was destroyed. This success opened the Aegean Sea to the Arabs. The Cyclades and other islands were sacked and Mount Athos was so devastated that it was deserted for several years.
literature
- Warren Treadgold: The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 . Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1988, ISBN 0-8047-1462-2
- AA Vasiliev: Byzance et les Arabes, Tome I: La Dynastie d'Amorium (820-867) . Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales, Brussels 1935.