Battle of Kardia
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Part of the 40°33′N 26°45′E / 40.55°N 26.75°E | |
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Byzantine victory |
The Battle of Kardia was a naval battle fought in c. 872/3 between the fleets of the
According to the 10th-century chronicler
This fleet plundered the shores of the
Some time after this defeat, Photios led another raid against Greece, but Ooryphas once again caught up with him and destroyed his fleet, killing Photios.[3][6] The dating of these events is unclear; Ekkehard Eickhoff (Seekrieg und Seepolitik zwischen Islam und Abendland, 1966) and Dimitris Tsoungarakis (Byzantine Crete: From the 5th Century to the Venetian Conquest, 1988) place the battle at Kardia in 872,[3] while Warren Treadgold (A History of the Byzantine State and Society) and John Pryor and Elizabeth Jeffreys (The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: The Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204) place it in c. 873.[7][8]
References
- ^ Wortley 2010, p. xix.
- ^ Wortley 2010, p. 147.
- ^ a b c d PmbZ, Photios (#26671).
- ^ a b Wortley 2010, pp. 147–148.
- ^ Canard 1971, p. 1083.
- ^ Wortley 2010, p. 148.
- ^ Treadgold 1997, p. 458.
- ^ Pryor & Jeffreys 2006, p. 61.
Sources
- OCLC 495469525.
- Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
- Pryor, John H.; Jeffreys, Elizabeth M. (2006). The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: The Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-15197-0.
- ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
- Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7.