Battle of Sebastopolis

Battle of Sebastopolis Part of the Byzantine–Arab Wars Date 692 Location Sebastopolis Result Umayyad victory Belligerents Umayyad Dynasty Byzantine Empire Commanders and leaders Muhammad ibn Marwan Leontios, Neboulos

v t e Byzantine–Arab Wars Early conflicts Mutah Tabouk Dathin Firaz Rashidun conquest of Roman Syria Qarteen Bosra Ajnadayn Marj-al-Rahit Fahl Damascus Maraj-al-Debaj Emesa Yarmouk Jerusalem Hazir Aleppo Rashidun conquest of Roman Egypt Heliopolis Alexandria Nikiou Umayyad conquest of North Africa Sufetula Carthage Umayyad invasions of Anatolia and Constantinople Iron Bridge Marash Phoenix 1st Constantinople Sebastopolis Tyana 2nd Constantinople Nicaea Akroinon Arab invasions of European territories Cyprus Crete Sicily Southern Italy Later conflicts Kamacha Abbasid invasion of 782 Kopidnadon Krasos Abbasid invasion of 806 Anzen and Amorium Mauropotamos Damietta Lalakaon Bathys Ryax Thessalonica John Kourkouas campaigns Sayf al-Daula campaigns Nikephoros Phokas campaigns John Tzimiskes campaigns Orontes Basil II campaigns George Maniakes in Sicily Damietta

The Battle of Sebastopolis was fought at Sebastopolis (mostly identified with Sebaste in Cilicia, but also with modern Sulusaray) in 692 between the Byzantine Empire and Umayyads. The Byzantines were led by Leontios and included a "special army" of 30,000 Slavs under their leader Neboulos. The Byzantine loss can be attributed to the defection of upwards of 20,000 Slavs thus ensuring a Byzantine defeat.^[1][2][3] One source states that the Emperor Justinian II massacred the remaining Slavs, including women and children, at the Gulf of Nicomedia,^[2] yet modern scholars do not consider this a reliable account.^[3]

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Sources

• Hendy, Michael F. (2008). Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy C. 300-1450. Cambridge University Press. 
• Theophanes the Confessor. "Anno Mundi 6184". Chronicle. 
• Ostrogorsky, George (1969). History of the Byzantine state. Rutgers University Press. 

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