Heraclius, appointed by his brother Tiberios III …
Years: 699 - 699
Heraclius, appointed by his brother Tiberios III as patrikios and commander-in-chief (monostrategos) of the Anatolian themes, crosses with his army the mountain passes of the Taurus Mountains into Cilicia in autumn 698, and thence heads to northern Syrian.
After defeating an Arab army from Antioch, …
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Slavs, South
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Opsikian Theme
- Anatolic Theme
- Armeniac Theme
- Armenia, Ostikanate of
- Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
Topics
- Famines and plagues 400 to 800
- Byzantine Papacy
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
- Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- Byzantine-Muslim War of 692-718
