Siege of Nicaea (727)
| date | July-August 727 |
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| place | Nikea , Asia Minor |
| output | Byzantine victory |
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| Commander | |
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Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham
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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 siege of Nicaea of 727 was an unsuccessful attempt by the Umayyads to conquer the Byzantine city of Nicaea , the capital of the subject of Opsikion . After forty days of siege, the Arabs broke off the attempt and returned to the caliphate . The successful defense helped the Emperor Leo III. in enforcing its iconoclastic policies.
literature
- Leslie Brubaker, John F. Haldon: Byzantium in the Iconoclast era, ca 680-850. A history . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, p. 144.