The Fatimid governor of Damascus, the Turkish …
Years: 994 - 994
The Fatimid governor of Damascus, the Turkish general Manjutakin, had besieged Apamea in 993/994.
Michael Bourtzes, the imperial doux of Antioch, comes forth to relieve the city.
The two armies meet across two fords on the Orontes River near Apamea on September 15, 994.
Manjutakin sends his forces to attack Bourtzes’s Hamdanid allies across one ford while pinning the main imperial force down on the other.
His men succeed in breaking through the Hamdanids, turn around and attack the imperial force in the rear.
The imperial army panics and flees, losing some five thousand men in the process.
This defeat leads to the direct intervention of emperor Basil II, and Bourtzes' dismissal from his post and his replacement by Damian Dalassenos as magistros.
This post is one of the most important military positions in the Empire, as its holder commands the forces arrayed against the Fatimid Caliphate and the semi-autonomous Muslim rulers of Syria.
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- Ismailism
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Years: 994 - 994
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Oghuz Turks
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Ismailism
- Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian [Kartvelian] kingdoms and principalities)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Hamdanid Dynasty
- Aleppo, Hamdanid Emirate of
- Armenia, Bagratid
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Fatimid Caliphate
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Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions