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535 CE -Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire takes Sicily.[5]
843 -Arabs in power over most of the island, including Messina.[5][3]
902 - Fall ofTaormina to the Saracens. The Muslim conquest of the island had begun in 826. Some time between the fall of Syracuse in 878 and the fall of Taormina in 902, the imperial administrator and military commander for theThema of Sicily, the Strategos, moves across the strait toRhegion, in Calabria.[3]
965 - Fall ofRometta, an outpost near Messina, and the last imperial possession on the island of Sicily. After this event, the Byzantine military post of "Strategos of Sicily" is altered to "Strategos of Calabria" in the chroniclers' lists.[3]
1038 -George Maniakes liberates Messina and the eastern third ofVal Demone, and carries on with the annexation of the eastern coast ofVal di Noto, also liberating Syracuse[6].[3]
1061 -Normans arrive in the area. They respect the native population.[3]
1190 - Messina is sacked, looted, and burned by forces of theAngevin King Richard, including the emblematic,Basilian Monastery of San Salvatore, on the pretext of the Norman KingWilliam's widow,Joan, and Richard's sister, not receiving her husband's inheritance from the new King of Sicily,Tancred .[3]
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