Dinar 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitL VII
Dates694 (taq) / 695 (tpq)
LocationsGermanikeia (Syria);
Antioch (Syria)
Textual SourcesBaladhuri, al-, Kitab futuh al-Buldan, tr. P. K. Hitti, The Origins of the Islamic State (London, 1916, reprint Beirut, 1966) (history);
Chronicon Anonymum ad annum 819 pertinens, ed. Aphram Barsaum (CSCO 81, 1920), trans. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 109, Scriptores Syri 56 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Chronicon ad annum Domini 846 pertinens, ed. E. W. Brooks, tr. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 3-4 (Louvain, 1904); also tr. E. W. Brooks, "A Syriac Chronicle of the Year 846", Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländ (chronicle)

Aban ibn al-Walid ibn Ukbah ibn al-Mu'ait (Aban 1) and Dinar ibn Dinar (Dinar 1) defeated the Greeks in AH 75 (May 694/April 695) near Marash (Germanikeia, in Syria): Baladhuri, tr. Hitti, p. 294. In 1006 Sel. (a. 694/695) Dinar son of Dinar (dynr bar dynr) defeated heavily an invading Roman army in the Valley of Antioch: Chron. 846, p. 232, 3-5 = pp. 175ff. (Chabot) = pp. 580ff. (Brooks), cf. Chron. 819, p. 13, 9-12 = p. 9 (the same events but his name is missing).

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