The defeat opened Process_start the way for the brutal sack Destroying of Amorion a few weeks later , one of the most serious blows Byzantium suffered Bodily_harm in the centuries-long Arab–Byzantine Wars Attack .

The Sack of Amorium by the Abbasid Caliphate in mid-August 838 was one of the major events Social_event in the long history of the Arab–Byzantine Wars .

The Arab–Byzantine wars Hostile_encounter were a series of wars Hostile_encounter between the mostly Arab Muslims and the Byzantine Empire between the 7th and 11th centuries AD , started Process_start during the initial Muslim conquests under the expansionist Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs in the 7th century and continued by their successors until the mid-11th century .

The last century of the Arab–Byzantine wars Hostile_encounter was dominated Control by frontier conflicts with the Fatimids in Syria , but the border remained stable until the appearance Presence of a new people , the Seljuk Turks , after 1060 .

After a period of indecisive and slow border warfare , a string of almost unbroken Byzantine victories in the late 10th and early 11th centuries allowed Preventing_or_letting three Byzantine Emperors , namely Nikephoros II Phokas , John I Tzimiskes and finally Basil II to recapture Conquering territory lost Earnings_and_losses to the Muslim conquests in the 7th century Arab–Byzantine wars under the failing Rewards_and_punishments Heraclian Dynasty .