Siege of Syracuse may refer to:
Sieges
By the Athenians:
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Siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC)
The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military expedition to Sicily, which took place from 415–413 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens on one side and Sparta, Syracuse and Corinth on the other. The expedition ended in a devasta ...
, during the Sicilian Expedition
By, or in league with, the Carthaginians:
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Siege of Syracuse (397 BC)
The siege of Syracuse in 397 BC was the first of four unsuccessful sieges Carthaginian forces would undertake against Syracuse from 397 to 278 BC. In retaliation for the siege of Motya by Dionysius of Syracuse, Himilco of the Magonid fa ...
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Siege of Syracuse (343 BC)
The siege of Syracuse from 344 to 343/342 BC was part of a war between the Syracusan general Hicetas (general), Hicetas and the tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Dionysius II. The conflict became more complex whe ...
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Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC)
The siege of Syracuse by the Carthage, Carthaginians from 311 to 309 BC followed shortly after the Battle of the Himera River (311 BC), Battle of the Himera River in the same year. In that battle the Carthaginians, under the leadership of Ha ...
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Siege of Syracuse (278 BC)
The siege of Syracuse in 278 BC was the last attempt of Carthage to conquer the city of Syracuse. Syracuse was weakened by a civil war between Thoenon and Sostratus. The Carthaginians used this opportunity to attack and besiege Syracuse bo ...
By the Roman Republic:
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Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage
By the Arab Aghlabid dynasty:
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Siege of Syracuse (827–828)
The siege of Syracuse in 827–828 marks the first attempt by the Aghlabids to conquer the city of Syracuse in Sicily, then a Byzantine province. The Aghlabid army had only months before landed on Sicily, ostensibly in support of the rebel Byza ...
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Siege of Syracuse (868) The siege of Syracuse in 868 was conducted by the Aghlabids against Syracuse in Sicily, then a possession of the Byzantine Empire, during the long Muslim conquest of Sicily. During the siege the Aghlabids defeated a Byzantine fleet which came to th ...
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Siege of Syracuse (877–878)
The siege of Syracuse from 877 to 878 led to the fall of the city of Syracuse, the Roman capital of Sicily, to the Aghlabids. The siege lasted from August 877 to 21 May 878 when the city, effectively left without assistance by the central Byzant ...
Other
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''Siege of Syracuse'' (film), a 1960 historical drama film
See also
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List of sieges of Syracuse
The city of Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse, on the island of Sicily southwest of the Italian peninsula, has been besieged repeatedly since its founding as a Greek colonies, Greek colony, including the following:
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