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 "id": "event/sack-of-damietta-238",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "sack-of-damietta-238",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كبسة الروم دمياط",
  "en": "The Byzantine raid on Damietta"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ثمان وثلاثين كبست الروم دمياط ونهبوا وأحرقوا وسبوا منها ست مئة امرأة وولوا مسرعين في البحر {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 540}.",
  "en": "In 238 the Byzantines raided Damietta, plundering and burning, carried off six hundred women and sped out to sea {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 540}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 853.0023888238636,
  "latest": 854.0017248813826
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0853~",
   "hijri": "0238",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "238؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 540}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0853~",
   "hijri": "0238",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "238؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 540}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "raid",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0853~",
    "hijri": "0238",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "238؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 540}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 538–541",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-28"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 238هـ، كما يرويه السيوطي، أغار الروم على دمياط فنهبوا وأحرقوا وسبوا منها ست مئة امرأة، ثم مضوا مسرعين في البحر. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.540}\n\nوكان الخليفة يومئذ [[person/al-mutawakkil|المتوكل]]. التاريخ والأعداد من مصدر واحد، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/sack-of-damietta-238",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 238 AH, as al-Suyuti relates, the Byzantines raided Damietta and plundered and burned it, and took six hundred women captive, then left quickly by sea. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.540}\n\nThe caliph at the time was [[person/al-mutawakkil|al-Mutawakkil]]. The date and the numbers rest on a single source and need an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/sack-of-damietta-238",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سنہ 238 ہجری میں، جیسا کہ سیوطی روایت کرتے ہیں، رومیوں نے دمیاط پر حملہ کیا، لوٹ مار کی، آگ لگائی اور وہاں سے چھ سو عورتوں کو قید کر لیا، پھر وہ سمندر کی طرف تیزی سے نکل گئے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.540}\n\nاس وقت خلیفہ [[person/al-mutawakkil|متوکل]] تھا۔ یہ تاریخ اور تعداد ایک ہی ماخذ سے ہیں، اس لیے اضافی ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/sack-of-damietta-238",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/al-mutawakkil",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "الخليفة",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/al-mufarraj-fortresses",
  "event/al-qummi-buja-war",
  "event/bugha-pacification-armenia",
  "event/conquest-of-barah",
  "event/demolition-of-husayn-tomb",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/ghiyar-decree-235",
  "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}