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 Florentines had thrown off GiveUp Medici rule and established Building a republic after the Sack of Rome in 1527 ; the Florentine Republic had continued to participate Participation in the war on the side of the French .