Battle of Akroinon

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Battle of Akroinon Part of the Byzantine-Arab Wars Date 739 or 740 AD Location Akroinon, Byzantine Empire (modern day Afyon, Turkey) Result Decisive Byzantine- Bulgarian victory. Belligerents Umayyad Caliphate Bulgarian Empire Byzantine Empire Commanders Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik Leo III, Constantine V

v • d • 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 Muslim conquest of Egypt Heliopolis – Alexandria – Nikiou Umayyad conquest of North Africa Sufetula – Carthage Umayyad invasions of Anatolia and Constantinople Iron Bridge – Kahramanmaraş – Phoenix – 1st Constantinople – 2nd Constantinople – Akroinon Arab campaigns in Southern Italy Sicily – Mainland Later Byzantine campaigns Campaigns of John Kourkouas – Campaigns of Nikephoros II – Campaigns of John I – Campaigns of Basil II – George Maniakes in Sicily – Damietta

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 (or 740) 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 Constantine V. In a decisive victory Leo expelled the Arab forces from Asia Minor, leaving Constantine well-placed to take advantage of the collapse of the Umayyad dynasty. The battle was described in detail in the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor.

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