Battle of Sebastopolis

date	692
place	Sebastopolis , Turkey
output	Umayyad victory

Parties to the conflict

Umayyads

Byzantine Empire

Commander

Muhammad ibn Marwan

Leontios ,
Neboulos

The Battle of Sebastopolis was fought at Sebastopolis (presumably Sebaste in Cilicia or Sulusaray ) in 692 between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyads .

The Byzantines were commanded by Leontios and also included a "special army" of 30,000 Slavs under their leader Neboulos . The Byzantine defeat can be traced back to the desertion of 20,000 Slavs. A source reports that Justinian II had the surviving Slavs, including women and children, butchered in the Gulf of Nicomedia. Today's historians doubt this representation.

Individual evidence

^ Georg Ostrogorsky : History of the Byzantine state , (Rutgers University Press, 1969), 131.
^ ^A ^b Michael F. Hendy: Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy C. 300–1450 , (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 631.
^ ^A ^b John F. Haldon: Byzantium in the seventh century , (Cambridge University Press, 1997), 72.

literature

Michael F. Hendy: Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy C. 300-1450 . Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Ralph-Johannes Lilie: The Byzantine reaction to the expansion of the Arabs. Studies on the structural change of the Byzantine state in the 7th and 8th centuries . Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich, Munich 1976.

[1] Georg Ostrogorsky : History of the Byzantine state , (Rutgers University Press, 1969), 131.

[Hendy-2] A ^b Michael F. Hendy: Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy C. 300–1450 , (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 631.

[Haldon-3] A ^b John F. Haldon: Byzantium in the seventh century , (Cambridge University Press, 1997), 72.