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The passage does not say that Belisarius conquered the islands, or that the Maltese islands were already in Byzantine hands. In fact, Malta is not included in the Synecdmus of Hierocles, which details a list of cities belonging to the Empire in 527/8. [18] Malta probably passed on to the Byzantines around the time of their conquest of Sicily in ...
Elsewhere in the central Mediterranean, the Aghlabids conquered the island of Malta in 870. [ 42 ] : 208 They also attacked or raided Sardinia and Corsica . [ 9 ] [ 43 ] : 153, 244 Some modern references state that Sardinia came under Aghlabid control around 810 or after the beginning of the conquest of Sicily in 827.
Of all the islands around Sicily, Malta was the last to remain in Byzantine hands, and in 869 a fleet under Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Ubaydallah ibn al-Aghlab al-Habashi attacked it. The Byzantines, having received timely reinforcements, resisted successfully at first, but in 870 Muhammad sent a fleet from Sicily to the island, and the capital Melite ...
During the Byzantine period, the main settlements remained the city of Melite on mainland Malta and the Citadel on Gozo, while Marsaxlokk, Marsaskala, Marsa and Xlendi are believed to have served as harbours. The relatively high quantity of Byzantine ceramics found in Malta suggests that the island might have had an important strategic role ...
The city fell to the Roman Republic in 218 BC, and it remained part of the Roman and later the Byzantine Empire until 870 AD, when it was captured and destroyed by the Aghlabids. The city was then rebuilt and renamed Medina, giving rise to the present name Mdina. It remained Malta's capital city until 1530.
Islam is believed to have been introduced to Malta when the North African Aghlabids, first led by Halaf al-Hadim and later by Sawada ibn Muhammad, [7] conquered the islands from the Byzantines, after arriving from Sicily in 870 [8] (as part of the wider Arab–Byzantine wars). [9]
part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Byzantine Empire: Aghlabids: Aghlabid victory 1053–1054 Siege of Medina part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Arabs Byzantine Empire: Arab victory 1091 Norman invasion of Malta part of the Norman conquest of southern Italy: Arabs Norman County of Sicily: Norman victory 1283 Battle of Malta part of the War of ...
Malta became involved in the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the conquest of Malta is closely linked with that of Sicily that began in 827 after Admiral Euphemius' betrayal of his fellow Byzantines, requesting that the Aghlabids invade the island. [78]