Sack of Thessalonica | |||||||
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Part of the Arab–Byzantine Wars | |||||||
The sack of Thessalonica, from the Madrid Skylitzes | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Byzantine Empire | Abbasid Caliphate | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Petronas Leo Chitzilakes Niketas | Leo of Tripoli |
The sack of Thessalonica refers to the capture, and subsequent sack, of the Byzantine city of Thessalonica by the Abbasid Caliphate in the year 904, led by Leo of Tripoli, a privateer and Muslim convert.