What the records say
- When
- Sep 788
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 37.43° N, 34.87° E
- Description
- battle between the armies of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Kopidnadon Muharebesi: Abbasi ve Bizans orduları arasında, Pozantı yakınlarındaki yapılan savaşta Bizanslılar ağır bir yenilgi aldılar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Kalifat der Abbasiden entsendet unter Hārūn ar-Raschīd ein Expeditionsheer durch die Kilikische Pforte in das byzantinische Thema Anatolikon in Kleinasien”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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