 Arabs sacked Sardis in 716, but the city remained a part of a resurgent Roman (Byzantine) Empire until the aftermath of the battle of Manzikert in 1071.Euthymius, a Metropolitan Bishop of Sardis, was martyred in 824 in relation to iconoclasm.In 1118, Byzantine general Philocales recaptured Sardis from the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.