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887:. Both agree that it was a crushing Aghlabid victory—their first in open sea combat: reportedly 5,000 Byzantines drowned, and 7,000 in total (or 7,000 more, depending on the translation from the Arabic) were killed.
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Aghlabid attacks.
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Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204
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824:fleets off northeastern
104:Commanders and leaders
117:Casualties and losses
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921:, pp. 237, 243.
689:Byzantine reconquest
884:Cambridge Chronicle
878:al-Bayan al-Mughrib
164:Arab–Byzantine wars
855:, with ships from
591:Straits of Messina
410:2nd Constantinople
395:1st Constantinople
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87:Belligerents
24:Part of the
859:as well as
560:2nd Milazzo
555:1st Milazzo
540:Caltavuturo
482:Bathys Ryax
294:Iron Bridge
259:Marj ar-Rum
50:October 888
997:Categories
907:References
897:Val Demone
873:Ibn Idhari
787:2nd Aleppo
658:Cephalonia
570:Garigliano
472:Faruriyyah
442:Kopidnadon
328:Alexandria
318:Heliopolis
304:Germanicia
289:1st Aleppo
209:Marj Rahit
202:The Levant
891:Aftermath
850:Byzantine
846:Aghlabids
818:Byzantine
734:5th Crete
719:Andrassos
678:4th Crete
673:3rd Crete
628:2nd Crete
623:1st Crete
601:2nd Malta
530:1st Malta
338:Darishkur
299:2nd Emesa
279:Jerusalem
98:Aghlabids
861:Ifriqiya
853:Calabria
822:Aghlabid
777:Basil II
638:Damietta
618:Keramaia
477:Lalakaon
420:Akroinon
384:Anatolia
372:Carthage
357:Sufetula
274:Laodicea
244:Damascus
224:Ajnadayn
76:Aghlabid
55:Location
1018:Milazzo
955:Sources
901:Rhegion
865:Milazzo
782:Orontes
749:Antioch
744:Cilicia
663:Euripos
613:Phoenix
586:Rometta
515:Lentini
505:Messina
462:Amorium
432:Kamacha
377:Tabarka
362:Vescera
343:Bahnasa
269:Yarmouk
125:unknown
112:unknown
109:unknown
78:victory
61:Milazzo
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863:. Off
857:Sicily
840:Battle
826:Sicily
792:Apamea
759:John I
739:Aleppo
709:Marash
648:Kardia
643:Ragusa
633:Thasos
548:&
510:Butera
489:Sicily
447:Krasos
415:Nicaea
386:&
333:Nikiou
229:Yaqusa
195:Dathin
180:Mu'tah
72:Result
65:Sicily
769:Syria
714:Raban
457:Anzen
405:Tyana
367:Mamma
311:Egypt
284:Hazir
264:Emesa
219:Bosra
190:Firaz
185:Balqa
978:ISBN
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812:The
801:Azaz
683:Tyre
520:Enna
491:and
254:Fahl
59:off
47:Date
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