Khafāja ibn Sufyān ibn Sawāda (Arabic: خفاجة بن سفيان بن سوادة), who died in the field of the Dittaino river on June 15, 869, was emigrated to Sicily on behalf of the aghlab dynasty. Established in Palermo in 862, he sent his son Maḥmūd to fight against his Syracusans, but he was defeated. In 864, under the realm of Khafāja, the cities of Noto and Scicli were occupied, while the colony of Qaṣr Yanna (the Castle of Enna), founded on the ancient Henna (whose name was, however, abandoned, reapplying for the Arabic toponym the previous Latin word), today Enna, conquered a few years before, was abandoned by Muslims and Christians if they resumed it. In 865, in another attack on Siracusa, led by his other son Muhammad ibn Khafaja, the Muslims killed a thousand Syracus horsemen in an ambush outside Siracusa. The Muslims also took four ships to the Syracusans.
In 869 a Muslim attempt was made to conquer the city of Taormina and a Muslim siege to the city of Syracuse (June).
On the way back to Palermo on June 15, Khafāja was killed by a Berber traitor. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
wiki
