List of Byzantine battles

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The following is a list of battles fought by the Eastern Roman or

6th century

• 503 – Siege of Amida (502–503) – The Persians captured the city of Amida.
• 528 –
  Sassanid Persians defeat Byzantines under Belisarius, death of Jabalah IV ibn al-Harith
  .
• 530 –
  • Battle of Dara – Belisarius defeats the Persians
  • Sassanid Empire
• 531 – Battle of Callinicum – Persian general Azarethes defeats Belisarius
• 533 –
  • 13 September Battle of Ad Decimum – Belisarius defeats Vandals near Carthage
  • 15 December Battle of Tricamarum – Belisarius defeats again the Vandals near Carthage.
• 535 –
  • Battle of Mammes
  • Battle of Mount Bourgaon
• 536 – Siege of Naples – Byzantines capture Naples
• 537 – Battle of Scalas Veteres
• 537–38 – Siege of Rome – Byzantines defend Rome against the Ostrogoths
• 538 –
  • Siege of Ariminum – Byzantines take Ariminum from the Ostrogoths
  • Siege of Urbinus – Byzantines take Urbinus from the Ostrogoths
  • Siege of Urviventus – Byzantines take Urviventus from the Ostrogoths
• 539 – Siege of Auximus – Byzantines take Auximus from the Ostrogoths
• 539–540 Siege of Ravenna — Byzantines force the Ostrogothic king to surrender
• 541 –
  • Siege of Petra – Sasanians capture Petra, Lazica from the Byzantines
  • Battle of Nisibis – Byzantines defeat the Persians
  • Siege of Sisauranon – The Sasanian garrison went over to the Byzantine side
  • Siege of Verona – Ostrogoths under Totila repel the Byzantines
• 542 –
  • Battle of Faventia – Ostrogoths under Totila defeat the combined Byzantine armies
  • Battle of Mucellium – Ostrogoths under Totila defeat the Byzantines
• 542–543 – Siege of Naples – Totila recaptures Naples
• 543 –
  Battle of Anglon
  – The Byzantine invasion of Persarmenia is defeated
• 544 –
  • Battle of Cillium – The Byzantine governor of Africa Solomon
    is killed by the Moors
  • Siege of Edessa – Unsuccessful siege of the Byzantine fortress of Edessa by the Sasanians
• 546 – Sack of Rome by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths
• 546 or 547 – Battle of Sufetula – Byzantine victory over the Moors
• 548 –
  Battle of the Fields of Cato – The new Byzantine commander, John Troglita
  , crushes the Moorish uprising
• 551 –
  • Battle of Sena Gallica – Byzantine fleet destroys the Ostrogothic navy
  • Siege of Petra (550–551) – Byzantines recapture and destroy Petra, Lazica from the Sasanians
• 552 – Battle of Taginae – Narses replaces Belisarius and defeats Ostrogoths under Totila
• 553 –
  • Battle of Mons Lactarius Narses defeats the Ostrogoths under Teia
  • Battle of Telephis–Ollaria
    – Byzantines are repelled by a Sasanian assault
• 554, October –
  Battle of the Volturnus – Narses defeats the Franks
• 559 – Battle of Melantias – Belisarius defeats the Kutrigurs
• 555 – Siege of Phasis – Sasanian siege of the town Phasis is defeated by the Byzantines
• 573 –
  • Nisibis
  • Sassanid Empire captures the strategic fortress of Dara
• 576 –
  Sassanid Empire
• 586 –
  Sassanid Empire
• 588 –
  Sassanid Empire
• 591 –
  Khosrau II
  to recover his throne

• 613 – Battle of Antioch
• 614 –
  • Siege of Caesarea
  • Siege of Jerusalem
• 626 – Siege of Constantinople
• 627 – Battle of Nineveh
• 629 – Battle of Mu'tah
• 634 –
  • Battle of Bosra
  • Battle of Ajnadayn
  • Battle of Fahl
  • Siege of Damascus
  • Battle of Maraj-al-Debaj
• 635–636 – Siege of Emesa
• 636 –
  Battle of Yarmouk
• 637 –
  • Siege of Jerusalem
  • Battle of Hazir
• 637 –
  • Siege of Aleppo
  • Battle of the Iron Bridge
• 638 – Siege of Germanicia
• 640 – Battle of Heliopolis
• 641 – Siege of Alexandria
• 646 – Battle of Nikiou
• 647 – Battle of Sufetula
• 655 – Battle of the Masts
• 674–678 –
  Siege of Constantinople
• 680 – Battle of Ongal
• 682 or 683 – Battle of Vescera
• 692 – Battle of Sebastopolis
• 698 – Battle of Carthage

8th century

• 707–708 or 708–709 – Siege of Tyana – Umayyads besiege and capture Tyana
• 708 – Battle of Anchialus (708)
• 717–718 –
  Siege of Constantinople
  – Second and last siege of Constantinople by the Arabs
• 727 – Siege of Nicaea – Unsuccessful siege of Nicaea by the Arabs
• 740 – Battle of Akroinon – Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian destroys an Arab invasion force
• 746 – Battle of Keramaia
• 756 – Battle of Marcellae
• 759 – Battle of the Rishki Pass
• 763 – Battle of Anchialus
• 766 –
  Siege of Kamacha
  – Unsuccessful Abbasid siege of the fort of Kamacha
• 774 –
  Battle of Berzitia
• 782 – Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor – Harun al-Rashid leads his troops as far as Chrysopolis
• 788 – Battle of Kopidnadon – Byzantines defeated by Abbasid invasion
• 792 – Battle of Marcellae

9th century

• 804 – Battle of Krasos – Abbasid army defeats emperor Nikephoros I
• 806 – Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor – Harun al-Rashid invades Asia Minor and sacks Heraclea
• 811 – Battle of Pliska – Emperor Nikephoros I is defeated by Bulgarian army
• 827–828 – Siege of Syracuse – Unsuccessful siege of Syracuse by the Aghlabids
• 829 – Battle of Thasos – Byzantine fleet is defeated by Emirate of Crete
• 838 –
  • Battle of Anzen – Emperor Theophilos is defeated by the Abbasids under Afshin.
  • Sack of Amorium – Abbasids under Caliph al-Mu'tasim besiege and sack the city of Amorium
• 844 – Battle of Mauropotamos – Abbasid army defeats the Byzantines under Theoktistos
• 853 – Sack of Damietta – Byzantine fleet raids and captures the port of Damietta in Egypt
• 862 – Capture of Faruriyyah – Abbasids capture the border fortress of Farurriyah
• 863 – Battle of Lalakaon – Byzantine army under Petronas annihilates the army of Malatya and kills its emir, Umar al-Aqta
• 868 – Siege of Ragusa – Byzantine fleet under Niketas Ooryphas relieves Ragusa and restores Byzantine control over Dalmatia
• 872 or 878 –
  Paulicians and kill their leader, Chrysocheir
• 872 or 873 –
  Cretan Saracens under the renegade Photios
• 873 or 879 –
  Cretan Saracens under the renegade Photios
• 877–878 – Siege of Syracuse – Fall of Syracuse to the Aghlabids
• 880 –
  • Aghlabid
    fleet raiding western Greece in a night battle
  • Aghlabid fleet off Calabria
• After 883 : Siege of Euripos
• 888 – Battle of Milazzo – Aghlabids defeat Byzantines
• 896 – Battle of Boulgarophygon – Bulgarian Army defeats Byzantines under Leo Katakalon

10th century

• 902 – Siege of Taormina – The former
  Aghlabid emir, Ibrahim II, captures the fortress of Taormina
• 904 Sack of Thessalonica
• 915 Battle of Garigliano
• 917 –
  • Battle of Achelous
  • Battle of Katasyrtai
• 922 – Battle of Pegae
• 941 – Rus' raid against Constantinople and Bithynia
• 953 – Battle of Marash
• 958 – Battle of Raban
• 960 – Battle of Andrassos
• 962 –
  Fatimids capture the fortress of Taormina
• 965 –
  Fatimids destroy a Byzantine invasion fleet under Niketas Abalantes
• 970 – Battle of Arcadiopolis
• 970–971 – Siege of Dorostolon
• 971 – Battle of Alexandretta
• 986 – Battle of the Gates of Trajan
• 994 – Battle of the Orontes
• 995 – Battle of Thessalonica
• 997 – Battle of Spercheios
• 998 – Battle of Apamea

11th century

• 1004 –
  • Battle of Skopje
  • Battle of Thessalonica
• 1009 – Battle of Kreta
• 1014 –
  • Battle of Thessalonica
  • Battle of Kleidion
  • Battle of Strumica
• 1015 – Battle of Bitola
• 1017 – Battle of Setina
• 1018 –
  • Battle of Dyrrhachium
  • Battle of Cannae
• 1021 – Battle of Shirimni
• 1022 – Battle of Svindax
• 1024 – Battle of Lemnos
• 1030 – Battle of Azaz
• 1040 –
  • Battle of Thessalonica
  • Battle of Thessalonica
• 1041 –
  • Battle of Ostrovo
  • Battle of Olivento
  • Battle of Montemaggiore
  • Battle of Montepeloso
• 1043 – Rus' raid into the Aegean Sea
• 1047 – Battle of Sasireti
• 1048 – Battle of Kapetron
• 1053-Battle of Zygos Pass
• 1054 –
  Battle of Manzikert
• 1067 – Battle of Caesarea
• 1068–71 – Siege of Bari
• 1069 –
  Battle of Iconium
• 1071 – Battle of Manzikert
• 1078 – Battle of Kalavrye
• 1081 – Battle of Dyrrhachium
• 1091 – Battle of Levounion
• 1097 – Siege of Nicaea

12th century

• 1107–1108 – Siege of Dyrrhachium
• 1113 – Siege of Nicaea
• 1116 – Battle of Philomelion
• 1122 – Battle of Beroia
• 1138 – Siege of Shaizar
• 1167 – Battle of Sirmium
• 1176 – Battle of Myriokephalon
• 1177 – Battle of Hyelion and Leimocheir
• 1185 –
  • Sack of Thessalonica
  • Battle of Demetritzes
• 1187 – Siege of Lovech
• 1190 – Battle of Tryavna
• 1194 – Battle of Arcadiopolis
• 1196 – Battle of Serres

13th century

• 1201 – Siege of Varna
• 1203 – Siege of Constantinople – First attack on Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, deposition of Alexios III Angelos
• 1204 –
  Siege of Constantinople – Second attack and capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, dissolution of the Byzantine Empire, establishment of the Latin Empire
• 1205 –
  • Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras
  • Battle of Adramyttium
• 1205–06 –
  Siege of Trebizond
• 1207 –
  Siege of Attalia
• 1211 –
  • Battle of Antioch on the Meander
  • Battle of the Rhyndacus
• 1214 – Siege of Sinope
• 1222–23 –
  Siege of Trebizond
• 1223 or 1224 – Battle of Poimanenon
• 1230 – Battle of Klokotnitsa – Bulgarians defeat and capture Theodore Komnenos Doukas
• 1235 – Siege of Constantinople – Unsuccessful joint Bulgarian–Nicaean siege of Constantinople
• 1254 – Battle of Adrianople
• 1259 – Battle of Pelagonia
• 1260 – Siege of Constantinople
• 1263 –
  • Battle of Prinitza
  • Battle of Settepozzi
• 1263 or 1264 – Battle of Makryplagi
• 1272/73 or 1274/75 –
  • Battle of Neopatras
  • Battle of Demetrias
• 1279 – Battle of Devina
• 1280–81 –
  Siege of Berat

14th century

• 1304 –
  • Battle of Bapheus – First Ottoman victory over the regular Byzantine army
  • Battle of Skafida – Bulgarians defeat the Byzantines
• 1305 – Battle of Apros -The Catalan Company defeats the Byzantines
• 1310 – Conquest of Rhodes – Hospitallers capture Rhodes
• 1320 – Battle of Saint George — The Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
• 1320–26 – Siege of Prussa – The Ottomans capture the city of Prussa, which becomes their capital
• 1329 – Battle of Pelekanon – The Ottomans defeat the last Byzantine attempt to defend Asia Minor
• 1328–31 –
  Siege of Nicaea
  – Ottomans capture the city of Nicaea
• 1332 – Battle of Rusokastro – Bulgarians defeat the Byzantines
• 1333–37 – Siege of Nicomedia – Fall of Nicomedia to the Ottomans
• 1354 – Fall of Gallipoli – Capture of Gallipoli by the Ottomans, first Ottoman stronghold in Europe
• 1366 –
  Reconquest of Gallipoli – Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
  , recovers Gallipoli for the Byzantines
• 1390 – Fall of Philadelphia – Ottomans capture Philadelphia, the last Byzantine stronghold in Asia

15th century

• 1411 – Siege of Constantinople – Ottomans besiege Constantinople
• 1422 – Siege of Constantinople – Ottomans besiege Constantinople
• 1422–30 –
  Siege of Thessalonica
  – Ottomans besiege and capture Thessalonica (after 1423 held by Venice)
• 1427 – Battle of the Echinades
• 1453 – Fall of Constantinople – Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire
• 1461 – Siege of Trebizond – Sultan Mehmed II captures Trebizond, ending the Empire of Trebizond