Sack Of Aleppo (other)
Sack of Aleppo may refer to: * Sack of Aleppo (962) The sack of Aleppo in December 962 was carried out by the Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros II Phokas, Nikephoros Phokas. Aleppo was the capital of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla, the Byzantines' chief antagonist at the time. Background In Octob ... * Sack of Aleppo (1400) {{Disambiguation ...
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Sack Of Aleppo (962)
The sack of Aleppo in December 962 was carried out by the Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros II Phokas, Nikephoros Phokas. Aleppo was the capital of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla, the Byzantines' chief antagonist at the time. Background In October 944, the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla captured Aleppo and soon extended his control over northern Bilad al-Sham, Syria, from Homs in the south to the al-Awasim, frontier lands with the Byzantine Empire in the northwest and parts of western Al-Jazira (caliphal province), Upper Mesopotamia. Under Sayf al-Dawla's patronage, Aleppo grew into the chief city of northern Syria, and was the site of major buildings, notably the great palace of Halbas outside Aleppo, endowed with splendid gardens and an aqueduct (watercourse), aqueduct. The Hamdanid court of Aleppo also became a major centre of cultural activity; as the historian Stephen Humphreys comments, at this time "Aleppo could certainly have held its own with any court in Renaissance Italy". ...
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