Battle of Bathys Ryax

When

872

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

39.84° N, 36.70° E

Description

battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians in 872 or in 878

Battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians

The Battle of Bathys Ryax was fought in 872 or 878 between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians. The Paulicians were a Christian sect which—persecuted by the Byzantine state—had established a separate principality at Tephrike on Byzantium's eastern border and collaborated with the Muslim emirates of the Thughur, the Abbasid Caliphate's borderlands, against the Empire.

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