siege, medieval

Siege of Wasit

Name: Siege of Wasit
Location: Wasit, Iraq

Siege of Wasit was a siege conducted in August AD 749 at Wasit, in what is now Iraq; it ran into the following year. It was part of the Abbasid Revolution, which ran from AD 746 to AD 750. The recorded result: Abbasid victory.

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FoughtAugust AD 749ran into the following year

WhereWasit, Iraq32.339N, 45.934E

OutcomeAbbasid victory

BelligerentsAbbasid HashimiyyaagainstUmayyad Caliphate

Part ofAbbasid RevolutionAD 746 to AD 750

Where it sits in the Abbasid Revolution

4 placed engagements of the Abbasid Revolution in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	August AD 749 (month precision) to June AD 750
Place	Wasit, Iraq 32.339N, 45.934E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Commanders	Al-Mansur Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi	Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani Hawthara ibn Suhayl

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad 1916, 21 km NW
Siege of Kut 1915, 21 km NW
Battle of Dujaila 1916, 21 km NW
Battle of Es Sinn 1915, 22 km NW
Battle of Hanna 1916, 36 km N

In the same war

Before: Battle of Jurjān AD 748
After: Battle of the Zab 25 January AD 750
All 4 engagements of Abbasid Revolution

Siege of Wasit is one of 158 engagements of the 8th century in the atlas and one of 206 in present-day Iraq.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q16931475, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Wasit, revision 1370871134, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.