Akamir 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 799 (taq) / 799 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 161 |
| Variant Names | Akameros |
| Ethnicity | Slav |
| Locations | Belzetia (Hellas) (officeplace); Belzetia (Hellas) (residence); Belzetia (Hellas) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Akamir 1 was the ruler of the Slavs of Belzetia (Ἀκάμηρος, ὁ τῶν Σκλαυινῶν τῆς Βελζητίας ἄρχων) in March 799, when at the instigation of the Helladikoi (presumably troops of the theme of Hellas) he planned to rescue the sons of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and proclaim one of them emperor (cf. Nikephoros 5); the plot failed when Eirene 1 heard of it and had the sons of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) all blinded: Theoph. AM 6291, Zon. XV 13. 20 (τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν Σθλαβικῶν ἐθνῶν, unnamed). Belzetia was presumably somewhere in or near Hellas.
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