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Battle of Akroinon
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The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon (also known as Acroinon or Acroinum, near modern Afyon) in Phrygia, on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau, in 739 between an Umayyad Arab
army of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, led by his brother Sulayman, and
Byzantine forces led by Leo III the
Isaurian and his son, the future
The battle was described in detail in the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor.
References
- Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994). The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-1827-8
- Mango, Cyril (2003). The Oxford History of Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814098-3
- Stearns, Peter N. (2001). The Encyclopedia of World History. Houghton Mifflin Books. ISBN 0-395-65237-5
- Young, George Frederick (1916). East and West Through Fifteen Centuries: Being a General History from B.C. 44 to A.D. 1453. Longmans, Green and Co.
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