Leo of Tripoli
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Leo of Tripoli (
Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire
's second city, in 904.
Life
Nothing is known of Leo's early life except that he was born in or near
The details of Leo's early career in the Muslim fleets are unknown, but he seems to have risen quickly: the historian
Tarsus.[4][5] Both of the latter cities were major Muslim naval centres in the late 9th century, and due to their proximity to the Byzantine Empire functioned as staging areas for the Muslim naval raids.[6]
In early 904, along with another Greek renegade,
Thessalonica, which he sacked after a three-day siege on 31 July 904. The sack of the city brought the Muslim fleet enormous booty and many captives who were taken to be sold as slaves, including the eyewitness John Kaminiates, who wrote the main account of the city's siege and fall.[4][8][9] Arab sources, confusing Thessalonica with Attaleia, erroneously report that Leo sacked the latter city.[10]
It is unknown if Leo was the head of the Arab fleet defeated by Himerios on St. Thomas' Day (6 October, probably in 906),patrikios and droungarios John Rhadenos defeated Leo's fleet off Lemnos. Most of the Arab fleet was destroyed and Leo himself barely escaped. He disappears from the sources after this event.[12][4][14]
See also
References
- ^ Vasiliev 1968, p. 163.
- ^ a b c Khoury Odetallah 1995, p. 98.
- ^ Vasiliev 1968, p. 163 (note 2).
- ^ a b c d e f PmbZ, Leon (von Tripolis) bzw. Tripolites (#24397).
- ^ Khoury Odetallah 1995, pp. 98–99.
- ^ Khoury Odetallah 1995, pp. 97–98.
- ^ Rosenthal 1985, p. 151.
- ^ Tougher 1997, pp. 186–188.
- ^ Khoury Odetallah 1995, pp. 98ff..
- ^ Khoury Odetallah 1995, p. 100.
- ^ Tougher 1997, p. 191.
- ^ a b Kazhdan 1991, p. 1216.
- ^ Tougher 1997, p. 192.
- ^ Wortley 2010, p. 211.
Sources
- ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Khoury Odetallah, Rashad (1995). "Leo Tripolites – Ghulām Zurāfa and the Sack of Thessaloniki in 904". Byzantinoslavica. 56 (1): 97–102. ISSN 0007-7712.
- 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.
- ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
- Tougher, Shaun (1997). The Reign of Leo VI (886–912): Politics and People. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10811-0.
- Vasiliev, A. A. (1968). Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II, 1ére partie: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à L'époque de la dynastie macédonienne (867–959) (in French). French ed.: Henri Grégoire, Marius Canard. Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales.
- Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7.
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