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Battle of Sebastopolis
Part of the Muslim conquests and the Byzantine-Arab Wars
Sulusaray (Sebastopolis) in Tokat Province of Turkey
Date 692 Location Sebastopolis (modern Sulusaray) Result Umayyad victory
Belligerents
Umayyad Caliphate	Byzantine Empire
Commanders and leaders
Caliph Abd al-Malik	Leontios, Neboulos
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Battle of Sebastopolis was fought near the eastern shores of the Black Sea in 692 between the Byzantine Empire and Umayyads. The Byzantines were led by Leontios, and included a "special army" of 30,000 Slavs (primarily Serbs) under their leader Neboulos. The Byzantine loss can be attributed to the defection of upwards of 20,000 Serbs/Slavs due to the harsh treatment under Justinian II, thus ensuring a Byzantine defeat. Furthermore, many of the rebellious Serbs left their lands in Bithynia to fight the Byzantine Emperor as retribution for the harsh treatment he had given his Serbian subjects. In the aftermath of the battle the Emperor reportedly rounded up every Serbian family in Bithynia and had them killed. Hwever,this is considered false as Byzantine sources document a large Serbian population in Bynthia as late as the 13th century. Furious at the loss of the army, the Emperor Justinian also had the commander Leontios imprisoned for two years.

References

• Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle, entry for Anno Mundi 6184
• Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Early Years. ISBN 0-394-53778-5.

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