🏛️ Amorion (Amorion-Laodicea Katakekaumene)
Burnt fortress city of Byzantine Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in western Anatolia, near Emirdağ in Afyon Province, Türkiye
- Major Byzantine fortress and administrative centre from the 5th century onwards
- Destroyed and deliberately burned by Abbasid forces in 838 CE during a major military campaign
- Extensively excavated since the 1980s; remains largely unexcavated and require ongoing conservation
Amorion was a significant Byzantine city and military stronghold in central Anatolia during the medieval period. Founded as ...