معركة عمورية إنعطافة في العلاقات بين الدويتين العباسية و البيزنطية 223 ه 838 م

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The battle of Amorum is regarded as one of the important and decisive battles in the history of the Arab-Byzantine struggle which immediately influenced the course of relationship between the two states.Amorium is the greatest city in the Byzanine state after Constantinople ( or !slampool or Istanbul as it is pronounced by common people ) due to its important site as closely to Constantinople which controls the knot of transportations of the western sides of Turkey, overlooking the Meditterean Sea and the Marmara Sea and £jahSea,in addition to its population weight and religions position for the Byzantines.These reasons can justify the Abbasid caliph’s choice of it, A1 Mu’tasim Billah (216-227A.H/833-842.A.D ), upon asking about the greatest city after ^ostantinople, as a second base the Byzantines took in line of confrontation with the Islamic -Arabic state during the Abbasid era, the caliph was told that it was Amorium.

This battle had an impact on the relationship between the Islamic — Arabic state and Byzantine state in particular and the east-west relationship in general.

Amorium became the main base from which the Islamic army set out to conquer Constantinople 857.A.H./1453.A.D .

This victory opened the way for the Moslem to impose the domination on the western areas of Anatholia and Asia Minor, where Islam and Arabic spread ahead toward Constantinople.This battle was indeed as real triumph for the Moslem and a great lesson for the Byzantine state at that time.