Azidos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 704 (taq) / 704 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 8596 |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Sision (Fort of, Cilicia); Cilicia |
| 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) |
Azidos 1 was the son of Chounei 1; a commander of Arab troops, he attacked Cilicia in 704 and laid siege to the fort of Sision, where the emperor Tiberios 2's brother Heraklios 2 defeated him; Azidos 1 is said to have lost twelve thousand Arabs (Ἀράβων): Theoph. AM 6196. On Sision, = Sis = Flavias, see Ramsay, Historical Geography, p. 385.
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