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Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (782)

 * ... that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE, Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
 * Comment: Not a self-nom. No QPQ review is required according to current DYK rules. --PFHLai (talk) 08:23, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Created/expanded by Cplakidas (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 08:23, 20 March 2012 (UTC)




 * Symbol confirmed.svg Newness (at the time of nomination), length, references all checked. Nice to have one more article on the Byzantine/Arab history. Vmenkov (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2012 (UTC)