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Arabs sack Rome.
Abbasid caliph al-Wathig dies and is succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil, who seeks to re-establish the traditional Muslim faith by persecuting Christians and Jews, as well as the unorthodox Muslim Shiites. During his fourteen-year reign Byzantium takes the cities of Damietta in Egypt and Cilicia in Armenia.
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