Polity Emirate of Bari

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Was an emirate founded in Bari (Italy) during the Arab campaigns in southern italy.

Establishment

  • January 848: In 860 the Duke of Benevento was defeated in Bari by Muslim forces and forced into an armistice with the emir and the payment of tributes. The Muslims established the Emirate of Bari in the conwiered territories.

Chronology

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1. Arab conquest of Bari

Was the Arab invasion and conquest of Bari, at the time part of the Duchy of Benevento.

  • January 848: In 860 the Duke of Benevento was defeated in Bari by Muslim forces and forced into an armistice with the emir and the payment of tributes. The Muslims established the Emirate of Bari in the conwiered territories.

2. Arab conquest of Matera and Oria

A military campaign of the Emirate of Bari against the Duchy of Benevento.

  • January 867: 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.

2.1. Frankish conquest of Matera and Oria

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

  • 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.

3. Riconquest of Bari

With the help of Frankish troops, the Duke of Benevento conquered the Emirate of Bari.

  • January 872: Frankish conquest of Bari.

Disestablishment

  • January 872: Frankish conquest of Bari.