<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taormina" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Taormina">Taormina</a>, the last Byzantine stronghold in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Taormina_(902)" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Taormina (902)">captured</a> by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghlabid" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aghlabid">Aghlabid</a> army, concluding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Sicily" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Muslim conquest of Sicily">Muslim conquest of Sicily</a>.<sup about="#mwt18" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_1#cite_note-1" id="mwMQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt15" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source" id="CITEREFVasiliev1968"><a href="./Alexander_Vasiliev_(historian)" id="mwB8Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander Vasiliev (historian)">Vasiliev, Alexander A.</a> (1968). <i id="mwB8c">Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à l'époque de la dynastie macédonienne (les empereurs Basile I, Léon le Sage et Constantin VII Porphyrogénète) 867-959 (253-348). Première partie: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à l'époque de la dynastie macédonienne. Première période, de 867 à 959</i>. Corpus Bruxellense Historiae Byzantinae (in French). French ed.: <a href="./Henri_Grégoire_(historian)" id="mwB8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Henri Grégoire (historian)">Henri Grégoire</a>, <a href="./Marius_Canard" id="mwB8k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marius Canard">Marius Canard</a>. Brussels: Fondation Byzantine. pp.<span id="mwB8o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>145–147. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwB8s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwB8w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1070617015" id="mwB80" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1070617015</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt15" class="Z3988" id="mwB84" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Byzance+et+les+Arabes%2C+Tome+II%3A+Les+relations+politiques+de+Byzance+et+des+Arabes+%C3%A0+l%27%C3%A9poque+de+la+dynastie+mac%C3%A9donienne+%28les+empereurs+Basile+I%2C+L%C3%A9on+le+Sage+et+Constantin+VII+Porphyrog%C3%A9n%C3%A8te%29+867-959+%28253-348%29.+Premi%C3%A8re+partie%3A+Les+relations+politiques+de+Byzance+et+des+Arabes+%C3%A0+l%27%C3%A9poque+de+la+dynastie+mac%C3%A9donienne.+Premi%C3%A8re+p%C3%A9riode%2C+de+867+%C3%A0+959&amp;rft.place=Brussels&amp;rft.series=Corpus+Bruxellense+Historiae+Byzantinae&amp;rft.pages=145-147&amp;rft.pub=Fondation+Byzantine&amp;rft.date=1968&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1070617015&amp;rft.aulast=Vasiliev&amp;rft.aufirst=Alexander+A.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+1"></span></span>