Battle of Kopidnadon
Battle between the armies of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Kopidnadon or Kopidnados took place in September 788 between the armies of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire. The Abbasid army launched an invasion of Byzantine Asia Minor, and was confronted by a Byzantine force at Kopidnadon. The resulting battle was an Abbasid victory. Among the Byzantine losses was a certain Diogenes, who is identified by some scholars with the probable original source for the literary hero Digenes Akritas.
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Part of the Arab–Byzantine Wars | |||||||
Asia Minor and the Byzantine-Arab frontier c. 780 AD | |||||||
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Abbasid Caliphate | Byzantine Empire |
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