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Battle of sirte (914)
Part of Abbasid-Fatimid wars
DateApril 914
Location
Sirte,Libya
Result Abbasid victory
Territorial
changes
Abbasids reached mehdia after that and sacked it
Belligerents
Abbasid Caliphate Fatimid Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Ibn al-Ash'ath
Samir al-din
Mallakish al-Barbary
Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
Maisan ibn abdullah
Abu muslim al-maghrebi
Strength
50,000 Soldiers
30 catapults
63,000 Soldiers
25 catapult
Casualties and losses
12,000 killed Heavy lose reached 29,000 killed

The battle of sirte (In arabic: Ma'rakat sirt) took place in April 914 and ended with a decesive victory for abbasid caliphate over the fatimid caliphate. As a result Abbasids invaded fezzan and tripolitania region from ibadi-shia control. it marked the first abbasid victory over fatimids