Barbastro
بربشتر
Barbastro, chief town of the Burṭāniya country near Zaragoza; stormed by the Nordmanni host in 456 after forty days when its water channel collapsed — a massacre Ibn Hayyan said Muslims had never seen the like of — then retaken by Ahmad al-Muqtadir ibn Hud in Jumada I 457 1.
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- Abbasid Fragmentation
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- al-Andalus & Europe
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Barbastro: the capital of a district of the land of Britain, near Saragossa, according to al-Maqqari. The army of the Ardumaniyyin overcame it in the year 456 AH, after a siege of forty days and the collapse of its water channel. al-Maqqari gives, on the authority of Ibn Hayyan, a description of the killing and captivity that took place in it, and his saying that the like of it had not been witnessed by the Muslims. Then Ahmad al-Muqtadir ibn Hud took it back in Jumada al-Ula in the year 457 AH. 2
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- حادثة بربشتر
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Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 449-454
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.449-454
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islam.museum contributors. “Barbastro”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/barbastro/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.