Qualla: Siege of Euripos https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Siege of Euripos https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos Siege of Euripos: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ The bait was a great shield heaped with gold, set down in plain view of the city walls. The Arab emir Yazaman al-Khadim had run out of patience with the defenders of Euripos, and now he offered the treasure, plus a hundred maidens, to the first of his men to climb over. From the ramparts, the Byzantine defenders watched the shield gleam and understood exactly what it meant: the final assault was coming. So before it could come to them, they came out to meet it.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/siege-of-euripos-wp/swbf-siege-of-euripos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Euripos: A Sea Gone Hostile https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ By the 880s the eastern Mediterranean had tilted against the Byzantines. Two losses in the previous century had done it: the slow Muslim conquest of Sicily and, more dangerously, the establishment of the Emirate of Crete. With Crete in Arab hands, the Aegean lay open to raiders w...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/siege-of-euripos-wp/swbf-siege-of-euripos-a-sea-gone-hostile.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Euripos: The Target on the Strait https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ In 883 Yazaman beat off a major Byzantine attack, and the following year he gathered his strength for a raid deep into Greece. His target was Euripos, the Byzantine name for Chalcis, a city straddling the narrow Euripus Strait where the island of Euboea nearly touches the mainlan...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/siege-of-euripos-wp/swbf-siege-of-euripos-the-target-on-the-strait.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Euripos: Walls, Fire, and Stone https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ The governor of the Theme of Hellas, a man Skylitzes calls Oineiates, used that warning well. He gathered the troops of his province, repaired the city walls, and mounted stone-throwing catapults along them. When Yazaman's ships came, the defenders met them with everything they h...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/siege-of-euripos-wp/swbf-siege-of-euripos-walls-fire-and-stone.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Euripos: The Shield and the Sortie https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ When force alone would not crack the walls, Yazaman tried greed. He placed the gold-laden shield before his troops and made his promise to the first man over the top. It was a calculated gamble, meant to buy with treasure what his soldiers could not take by storm. But the defende...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/siege-of-euripos-wp/swbf-siege-of-euripos-the-shield-and-the-sortie.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Euripos: A Win That Did Not Hold the Tide https://qualla.com/siege-of-euripos/ Skylitzes claims Yazaman himself fell in the fighting, but that is a slip; Arab sources record him raiding Byzantium again in 886 and 888 before he died in 891, besieging a different fortress. The victory at Euripos was real but local. Arab raids on Greek waters continued and gre...

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