The Battle of Raban is an engagement fought in autumn 958 near the north Syrian fortress of Raban between the Byzantine army, led by John Tzimiskes (later emperor in 969–976), and the forces of the Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo under the famed emir Sayf al-Dawla (r. 945–967).
The battle is a major victory for the Byzantines, and contributes to the demise of Hamdanid military power, which in the early 950s had proven a great challenge to Byzantium.
