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Name: Frankish conquest of Matera and Oria

Type: Event

Start: 868 AD

End: 868 AD

Parent: Arab conquest of Matera and Oria

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The Principality of Benevento reconquered Matera and Oria from the Emirate of Bari with the support of Frankish troops.

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  • January 868: It was not before the spring of 867 that Louis began his action against the Emirate. He immediately laid siege to Matera and Oria, recently conquered, and set the former on fire. Oria had been a prosperous center before the Muslim conquest. The scholar Barbara Kreutz hypothesizes that Matera resisted Ludovico while Oria would have opened its doors to him and it is perhaps for this reason that Matera was razed to the ground.

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