sozopetra

Updated: May 28, 2025

In the last of these expeditions he penetrated into Syria, and besieged the obscure town of Sozopetra; the casual birthplace of the caliph Motassem, whose father Harun was attended in peace or war by the most favored of his wives and concubines.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Sozopetra was levelled with the ground, the Syrian prisoners were marked or mutilated with ignominious cruelty, and a thousand female captives were forced away from the adjacent territory.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5